Clergy Education in America
Clergy Education in America

Author: Larry Abbott Golemon

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0195314670

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"The first 100 years of the education of the clergy in the United States is rightly understood as classical professional education-that is, a formation into an identity and calling to serve the wider public through specialized knowledge and skills. This book argues that pastors, priests, and rabbis were best formed into capacities of culture building through the construction of narratives, symbols, and practices that served their religious communities and the wider public. This kind of education was closely aligned with liberal arts pedagogies of studying classical texts, languages, and rhetorical practices. The theory of culture here is indebted to Geertz and Bruner's social-semiotic view, which identifies culture as the social construction of narrative, symbols, and practices that shape the identity and meaning-making of certain communities. The theological framework of analysis is indebted to Lindbeck's cultural-linguistic view, which emphasizes the role of doctrine as grammatical rules that govern narratives, doctrinal grammars, and social practices for distinct religious communities. This framework is pushed toward the renewal and reconstruction of religious frameworks by the postmodern work of Sheila Devaney and Kathryn Tanner. The book also employs several other concepts from social theory, borrowed from Jurgen Habermas, Max Weber, Pierre Bourdieu, Michael Young, and Bernard Anderson"--

Seminary Addresses and Other Papers (Classic Reprint)
Seminary Addresses and Other Papers (Classic Reprint)

Author: S. Schechter

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781528549585

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Excerpt from Seminary Addresses and Other Papers The following pages, representing a selection of Papers and Addresses delivered on various occasions, were intended to appear in the form of a volume some three years ago in commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the re-organization of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Illness and other untoward circumstances prevented me from giving my attention to their publication until lately. But it is this delay which made it possible to include the last five papers. These papers lay no claim to the attainments of rhetoric, which are unfortunately beyond my powers, nor will the reader find in them any indulgence in abstruse learning, which, even if it were within my reach, would be out of place in popular Addresses like these. The references to Rabbinic literature were mostly omitted for the same reason. All 1 endeavored to do was to express my thoughts in plain and direct language, in which I hope I did not entirely fail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Solomon Schechter: A Bibliography
Solomon Schechter: A Bibliography

Author: Adolph S. Oko

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 110753660X

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Originally published in 1938, this book presents a detailed record for the writings of the rabbi and scholar Solomon Schechter (1847-1915).

Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah
Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah

Author: Shalom Carmy

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated

Published: 1996-07-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1461629616

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From the Preface: "The principal thrust of this book is to challenge the compartmentalization to which we seem all too easily resigned, to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of Torah, conceived as a religious-intellectual way of life. Not 'Modern Scholarship and the Study of Torah,' but 'Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah."

Jewish Sunday Schools
Jewish Sunday Schools

Author: Laura Yares

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1479822280

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Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth across the country. These schools were modeled on Christian approaches to religious education and aimed to protect Jewish children from Protestant missionaries. But debates soon swirled around the so-called sorry state of “feminized” American Jewish supplemental learning, and the schools were taken over by men within one generation of their creation. It is commonly assumed that the critiques were accurate and that the early Jewish Sunday school was too feminized, saccharine, and dependent on Christian paradigms. Tracing the development of these schools from their inception through the first decade of the twentieth century, this book shows this was not the reality. Jewish Sunday Schools argues that the work of the women who shepherded Jewish education in the early Jewish Sunday school had ramifications far outside the classroom. Indeed, we cannot understand the nineteenth-century American Jewish experience, and how American Judaism sought to sustain itself in an overwhelmingly Protestant context, without looking closely at the development of these precursors to Hebrew School. Jewish Sunday Schools provides an in-depth portrait of a massively understudied movement that acted as a vital means by which American Jews explored and reconciled their religious and national identities.

Origins of Catholic Words
Origins of Catholic Words

Author: Anthony Lo Bello

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 0813232309

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"This encyclopedic dictionary discusses the etymology, history, and usage of words relating to all aspects of the Catholic Church"--