Something Different at Secular Culture & Ideas
Last month, Secular Culture & Ideas - which explores secular Jewish culture, history, arts, and thought - unveiled its new site. The journal has been updated with several new features, including a multimedia page, two new columns (Culture Currents and Bookshelf) and a brand new look.
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Not since the time of the European Enlightenment, in the eighteenth century, has so much passionate discussion swirled around the philosophical issues of religion and science, faith and reason, says Rebecca Goldstein.
Jews have been at the forefront of movements of secularization since the age of Enlightenment and are among the most secular of peoples in today's world. Yet the intellectual and social origins of this tendency toward secularism are poorly understood, according to David Biale.
A Conversation on Jewish Secularism, held recently in New York, explored the Jewish secular tradition, its roots in the Jewish religion and its continuing legacy today.
Read an adaptation from David Biale's Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Secular Jewish Thought.
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Posen Summer Seminar
Literatures of Jewish Secularism and Secularization
August 1-10, 2011
The Posen Foundation's ten-day intensive seminar examines Jewish secularity from historical, sociological, philosophical and cultural perspectives. Open to professors, independent scholars and advanced graduate students in Jewish Studies, social and intellectual history, political theory and philosophy, literary studies, and sociology of religion.
Held at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, the seminar will be led by Rachel Rubinstein, Naomi Seidman, and other faculty.
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