ISBN:
9781108708852
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9781108497893
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 255 Seiten
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Diagramme
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8924073
Keywords:
Geschichte 1850-2000
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General / bisacsh
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Jews Politics and government
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Liberalism History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
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Liberale Theologie
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Juden
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Säkularismus
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Liberalismus
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Politische Beteiligung
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United States Ethnic relations
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USA
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USA
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Juden
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Säkularismus
;
Liberalismus
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Politische Beteiligung
;
Geschichte 1850-2000
;
Juden
;
Liberale Theologie
Abstract:
"American Jews have built a political culture based on the principle of equal citizenship in a secular state. This durable worldview has guided their political behavior from the founding to the present day. In The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism, Kenneth D. Wald traces the development of this culture by examining the controversies and threats that stimulated political participation by American Jews. Wald shows that the American political environment, permeated by classic liberal values, produced a Jewish community that differs politically from non-Jews who resemble Jews socially and from Jewish communities abroad. Drawing on survey data and extensive archival research, the book examines the ups and downs of Jewish attachment to liberalism and the Democratic Party and the tensions between two distinct strains of liberalism"...
