TY - BOOK AU - Scult,Mel ED - Project Muse. TI - The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan T2 - The modern Jewish experience SN - 9780253010889 AV - BM755.K289 S395 2013 U1 - 296.8/344 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Bloomington, Indiana PB - Indiana University Press KW - Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, KW - Reconstructionist Judaism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza -- Self-reliance: Kaplan and Emerson -- Nationalism and righteousness: Ahad ha-Am and Matthew Arnold -- Universalism and pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey -- Kaplan and peoplehood: Judaism as a civilization and Zionism -- Kaplan and his God: an ambivalent relationship -- Kaplan's theology: beyond supernaturalism -- Salvation: the goal of religion -- Salvation embodied: the vehicle of mitzvot -- Mordecai the pious: Kaplan and Heschel -- The law: halakhah and ethics -- Kaplan and the problem of evil: cutting the gordian knot -- Appendix: "Thirteen wants" of Mordecai Kaplan reconstructed UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253010889/ ER -