This article explores how the process of religious individualization, which focuses on agency and entrepreneurship, is a viable theoretical tool to be applied to early modern Judaism. Instead of interpreting early modern Judaism as a coherent and stable religious system, or emphasizing a particular current of religious thought that might be influential in supporting individual agency, the article aims to offer an overview of how a diaspora religion such as Judaism was characterized by a wealth of different religious choices. This perspective is combined with a methodological approach linked to ‘entangled history,’ which highlights plausible and potential relationships among different religious groups. This perspective aims to unearth dynamism instead of identity or coherence.

Cristiana Facchini (2017). Entangled Histories. A Road Map to Religious Individualization in Early Modern Judaism. ANNALI DI STORIA DELL'ESEGESI, 34(1), 145-174.

Entangled Histories. A Road Map to Religious Individualization in Early Modern Judaism

FACCHINI, CRISTIANA
2017

Abstract

This article explores how the process of religious individualization, which focuses on agency and entrepreneurship, is a viable theoretical tool to be applied to early modern Judaism. Instead of interpreting early modern Judaism as a coherent and stable religious system, or emphasizing a particular current of religious thought that might be influential in supporting individual agency, the article aims to offer an overview of how a diaspora religion such as Judaism was characterized by a wealth of different religious choices. This perspective is combined with a methodological approach linked to ‘entangled history,’ which highlights plausible and potential relationships among different religious groups. This perspective aims to unearth dynamism instead of identity or coherence.
2017
Cristiana Facchini (2017). Entangled Histories. A Road Map to Religious Individualization in Early Modern Judaism. ANNALI DI STORIA DELL'ESEGESI, 34(1), 145-174.
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