How Jewish Orthodoxy Became a State: Isaac Breuer and the Invention of the Statist Theocracy

This article traces the incorporation of the modern state and the notion of sovereignty into Jewish Orthodox thought, culminating in the idea that the role of Orthodoxy is to establish a statist theocracy. Unlike narratives that emphasize the continuation of theocratic thought from ancient to modern...

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Main Author: Ben Ami, Itamar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2023
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2023, Volume: 116, Issue: 1, Pages: 123-146
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Breuer, Isaak 1883-1946 / State / Theocracy / Judaism / Politicalization
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BH Judaism
NCD Political ethics
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Agudath Israel
B Jewish State
B Isaac Breuer
B Theocracy
B ultra-Orthodoxy
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