Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice : Studies in Tradition and Modernity [1 ed.] 9780827611832, 9780827612143

The Shi‘i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity 9780755609215, 9781784534776

The idea of maslaha has a rich history in classical legal thought and literature. Conventionally translated into English

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Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Changing Religions in a Changing World 9781474280976, 9781474280983, 9781474280969

First delivered in 1974 as one of the Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, this book considers and compares traditio

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Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity

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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition 9781612494265

Economic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twenty-first century. Although these issues have not troubled

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Tradition and Equality in Jewish Marriage 9781472548764

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Translating a Tradition : Studies in American Jewish History [1 ed.] 9781618110336, 9781934843062

Divided into three sections, this work explains how the concepts and practices of traditional European Judaism were adap

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Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition: Case Studies in the Intersection of Modernity and Nationality 9780520932050

It is well known that Béla Bartók had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Ea

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Jewish Faith in a Changing World: A Modern Introduction to the World and Ideas of Classical Jewish Philosophy 9781618110886

Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers like Mai

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Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity 0190077042, 9780190077044

Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptu

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Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition 9780300158953

Winner of the 2016 Goldstein-Goren Award for the best book in Jewish Thought At once a study of biblical theology and

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