Church-State Dilemmas of American Jews


 

Publication Date: January 2002

Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.

Author(s): Jonathan D. Sarna

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: American Jews; Political behavior

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

What does religious liberty means? How are those who adhere to the religion of the majority, those who adhere to the religion of the minority, and those who adhere to no religion at all supposed to interrelate? If America is not a Christian society, what kind of a society is it and what is the relationship of that society to the state? American Jews have never been of one mind concerning these questions. Here I will extent this conclusion.