“Others-in-Law”: Legalism in the Economy of Religious Differences

Religious legalism encompasses a wide range of attitudes that assign religious meaning to legal content or to legal compliance. The phenomenology of religious legalism is assuming a significant role in various contemporary debates about legal pluralism, accommodation of religious minorities, religious freedom, and so forth. This article revises this conception and the commonplace equation of Judaism and legalism. It suggests that we ought to regard both as part of the economy of religious differences by which religious identities are expressed and defined as alternatives. The common ascription of religious legalism to Judaism (and Islam) is criticized here through a historical analysis of the law-religion-identity matrix in three cultural settings: late ancient Judeo-Hellenic, medieval Judeo–Arabic, and post-Reformation Europe

Sur la question : Que signifie Aufklären ? (1784)

Mendelssohn Moses. Sur la question : Que signifie Aufklären ? (1784). In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°10, 1978. Qu'est-ce que les Lumières ? pp. 22-26

Zum Siegesfeste : Dankpredigt und Danklieder

von Moses Mendelssohn. Eine Reliquie, zum ersten Male herausgegeben und mit Einleitung versehen von M. KayserlingAus der Sammlung des Leo Baeck Institute, digitalisiert in Kooperation mit dem Center for Jewish History, N

Kiri J. von Sonnenfels'ile

Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786, juudi päritolu saksa filosoof ja kirjanikSonnenfels, Joseph, 1732-1817, kirjanik, parunKirja esimene lehekülg, jäänud kirjutamisel poolel

Jerusalem oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum

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