Judaism in a digital age: an ancient tradition confronts a transformative era
What is the next chapter in Judaism's story, the next step in its journey? The dramatic changes of recent decades invite us to explore what role Judaism is to play in this new era. As the digital future becomes the present, Danny Schiff makes the case that the period known as "modernity&qu...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Digital revolution
/ Religious change
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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Judaism 21st century
B Religion und Politik B Theology B Theology / RELIGION / Judaism B Religion & Politics B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion B Judaism: theology B RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State B Religion and sociology B Sociology B Judaism B Digital Media Religious aspects Judaism B Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften |
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| Summary: | What is the next chapter in Judaism's story, the next step in its journey? The dramatic changes of recent decades invite us to explore what role Judaism is to play in this new era. As the digital future becomes the present, Danny Schiff makes the case that the period known as "modernity" has come to an end. Noting the declining strength of Conservative and Reform Judaism, the largest US Jewish movements of modernity, he argues for new iterations of Judaism to arise in response to the myriad of weighty questions that now confront us about what it means to be human. Here is an account of the digital age through a Jewish lens, in which Schiff examines Jewish teachings and traditions, exploring what moral insight they might have to offer in this period of great flux. He marshals the thought of well-known futurists such as Ray Kurzweil and Yuval Noah Harari to forecast the exponentially larger shifts in the human condition that lie ahead, and proposes that a countercultural Judaism could have renewed relevance in addressing some of the pressing issues that confront humanity in the twenty-first century |
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| ISBN: | 3031179919 |