Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jerome e copulsky”
Skip side bar filters

  • Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology

    by Jerome E. Copulsky, Dana Hollander, Eric Jacobson, Gregory Kaplan, Daniel Weidner, Daniel Brandes, Sarah Hammerschlag, Zachary Braiterman, Robert Erlewine, Oona Eisenstadt, Brian Britt, Bruce Rosenstock ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    These essays propose "a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political" ( Jewish Book World ).Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Heretics

    Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order

    by Jerome E. Copulsky ...
    A penetrating account of the religious critics of American liberalism, pluralism, and democracy—from the Revolution until today“A chilling consideration of persistent mutations of American thought still threatening our pluralist democracy.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    American Heretics

    Religous Adversaries to Liberal Order

    by Jerome E. Copulsky ...
    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 50 min

    The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned. Advocates of a "Christian America" claim that the Framers intended a nation whose political values and institutions were shaped by Christianity; secularists argue that they designed an enlightened republic where church and state were ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Freethinkers

    A History of American Secularism

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" ( The New York Times)At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charisma

    The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us

    by Philip Rieff ...
    From a profoundly influential social theorist comes a posthumously published analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.“A compelling diagnosis of our condition.” —The Wall Street JournalAccording to Rieff, the contemporary notion of charisma—the personal magnetism of political leaders or movie stars—is a tragic misunderstanding of a profoundly important concept. Charisma originally ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Parting Ways

    Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

    by Judith Butler ...
    Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism and its practices of illegitimate state violence, nationalism, and state-sponsored racism. At the same ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

    by Benjamin M. Friedman ...
    From one of the nation's preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized force—religion."Friedman has given us an original and brilliant new perspective on the terrifying divisions of our own times. No book could be more important.” —George A. Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Religious History of America

    The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today

    by Edwin S. Gaustad, Leigh Schmidt ...
    "A comprehensive, graceful narrative that truly represents the pluralism, momentum, and vitality of American religious life." —Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University, author of Conceived in DoubtIn this landmark work, award-winning Princeton historian Leigh Schmidt teams up with Edwin Gaustad—a scholar "in the front rank of American religious historians" ( The New York Times)—to produce a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Judaism Became a Religion

    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

    by Leora Batnitzky ...
    Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Divided by God

    America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A Timely Exploration of the Profound Conflict Between Religion and Politics in AmericaEven before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that the relationship between church and state in the United States had reached a crisis point. In Divided by God, Noah Feldman shows that this crisis is as old as the nation itself—and offers a compelling look ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life

    Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein

    by Hilary Putnam ...
    An "engagingly personal" exploration of Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, and the relationship between philosophy and religion ( Times Literary Supplement).In this book, distinguished philosopher and practicing Jew Hilary Putnam questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century—Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberty of Conscience

    In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

    by Martha Nussbaum ...
    In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. This respect for religious difference, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD