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The Doubting Jew: Atheism, Jewish Thought and Interfaith Relations

怀疑的犹太人：无神论、犹太思想和宗教间关系

基本信息

批准号：
AH/N002881/1
负责人：
Daniel Langton
金额：
$ 17.83万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN002881%2F1
关键词：
Doubting Jew Atheism Jewish Thought

项目摘要

The proposed study of Jewish doubt will focus on the encounter between atheism and the religion of Judaism. Along with the related philosophies including scepticism, philosophical materialism and scientific naturalism, atheism is amongst the most influential intellectual trends in Western thought and society. As such, it is too important a phenomenon to ignore in any study of religion that seeks to locate the latter within the modern world. For scholars of Judaism and the Jewish people, the issue is even more pressing in that for Jews, famously, the categories of religion and ethnicity blur so that it makes sense to speak of non-Jewish Jews many of whom have historically been indifferent or even hostile to religion. The intercultural intercourse between non-religious philosophies and religion is of particular interest in the study of the dominant form of Judaism in the US, that of Reform Judaism, which since the early nineteenth-century has presented itself as a response to modernity. Likewise, interfaith encounters between Jew and Christian have in modern times taken place against the backdrop of a largely atheistic, materialist culture; one might even say that they have been accompanied by an ever-present third partner in dialogue, namely, the religious doubter. These observations prompt us to ask:1. Why has no substantial survey of the Jewish engagement with atheism yet been undertaken? Such a survey would fill an important gap in the historical study of atheism and the attendant religion-atheism controversy. It would also enhance an understanding of modern Jewish identity among those who both embraced and those who opposed atheistic arguments.2. Why have no major studies of Reform or Liberal Judaism used doubt as a category of analysis? Such a study would likely revise the historical understanding of the development of progressive forms of Judaism. While the emergence of Reform is usually presented as a response to modernity vis-à-vis Orthodox Jewish tradition and Christianity, one might just as readily focus upon discourses of doubt, specifically around atheism, scepticism and materialistic philosophies. 3. Why has the phenomenon of atheism has been overlooked by historians of Jewish-Christian relations? Such a study would open up a new avenue of research for scholarship of interfaith relations, ignored until now despite the high profile atheism has been given in public Christian theological discourse and the fact that, since the Enlightenment, there has been a strong tendency for Jews to work out their responses to modernity in relation to Christian thought.The proposal here represents a programme to bring together Western Jewish theological responses to atheism and scepticism in the modern period, a number of which are not easily available or in the public domain. Such a body of work would be important not just because the Jewish chapter of the modern history of atheism is missing, but because the primary source materials involved represent an underutilized resource for historians of progressive Judaism and for understanding the complicated interrelationship of modern Jewish and Christian thought. One would have expected such a collection of primary sources to be a familiar and regularly used resource for historians of all three areas, but this is not the case.

拟议的犹太人怀疑的研究将集中在无神论和犹太教的宗教之间的遭遇。沿着与之相关的哲学，包括怀疑主义，哲学唯物主义和科学自然主义，无神论是其中最有影响力的知识分子在西方思想和社会的趋势。因此，这是一个非常重要的现象，在任何试图在现代世界中找到后者的宗教研究中都不能忽视。对于犹太教和犹太人的学者来说，这个问题更加紧迫，因为对于犹太人来说，众所周知，宗教和种族的类别模糊不清，因此谈论非犹太犹太人是有意义的，他们中的许多人历史上对宗教漠不关心甚至敌视。非宗教哲学与宗教之间的跨文化交流在研究美国犹太教的主导形式时特别有意义，即改革犹太教，它自19世纪初以来一直表现为对现代性的回应。同样，犹太人和基督徒之间的宗教间接触在现代是在一种基本上无神论的唯物主义文化背景下发生的;甚至可以说，在对话中始终存在着第三个伙伴，即宗教怀疑者。这些观察促使我们问：1。为什么还没有对犹太人与无神论的接触进行实质性的调查？这样的调查将填补无神论历史研究和随之而来的宗教无神论争议的一个重要空白。它还将提高那些既接受又反对无神论论点的人对现代犹太人身份的理解。为什么没有对改革或自由派犹太教的主要研究使用怀疑作为分析的范畴？这样的研究可能会修改犹太教进步形式发展的历史理解。虽然改革的出现通常被认为是对现代性与正统犹太传统和基督教的回应，但人们也可以很容易地关注怀疑的话语，特别是围绕无神论，怀疑论和唯物主义哲学。3.为什么无神论现象被犹太教和基督教关系的历史学家所忽视？这样的研究将为宗教间关系的学术研究开辟一条新的研究途径，尽管公共基督教神学话语中高调的无神论一直被忽视，而且自启蒙运动以来，犹太人有一种强烈的倾向，即在与基督教思想有关的现代性问题上做出回应。这里的建议代表了一个将西方犹太神学对现代无神论和怀疑论的回应，其中一些不容易获得或在公共领域。这样一套著作之所以重要，不仅是因为现代无神论史中的犹太章节缺失了，还因为其中涉及的主要原始资料对于研究进步犹太教的历史学家以及理解现代犹太教和基督教思想之间复杂的相互关系来说，都是一种未充分利用的资源。人们会期望这样一个收集的主要来源是一个熟悉的和经常使用的资源，为所有三个领域的历史学家，但事实并非如此。