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- Title
REVIEW ESSAY: Are America's Jews Experiencing a Religious Revival?
- Authors
Waxman, Chaim I.
- Abstract
The article presents information on various books on the significance of religion in American Society. The books are: "Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism," by Lynn Davidman; Returning to Tradition: The Contemporary Revival of Orthodox Judaism, by M. Herbert Danzger; Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy, by David Ellenson; Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women, by Debra Renee Kaufman. As recently as the middle-to-late 1960s, virtually every observer foresaw an uncontainable growing secularization and the concomitant inevitable demise of religion in modern and post-modern West. America was viewed as the epitome of the secular city in which the death of God had been proclaimed. By the mid-1970s, there was a new religious consciousness. The presidential campaign of 1975-76 highlighted Jimmy Carter's experience as a born-again Christian, and he was but the most famous of a significantly growing number of newly religious. Within the larger American society, adults and young adults who were either initially provided with little religious socialization or who had rejected religion, were suddenly turning to religion, and this was a phenomenon which affected both Christians and Jews.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States social conditions; TRADITION in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism (Book); RETURNING to Tradition (Book); RACHEL'S Daughters (Book); JEWS; RELIGIOUS behaviors
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1992, Vol 15, Issue 2, p203
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1007/BF00989494