Commandments and Concerns: Jewish Religious Education in Secular Society

Contents

Contents Preface vii Introduction 3 PART ONE: RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1 Jewish Religious Education: Two Philosophical Schools 15 2 Aspects ofNormative Religious Education 27 3 Secular Diagnoses ofEducational Crisis 48 4 Religious Responses to Secular Solutions 64 5 The Scholar, the Believer, and the Educator 83 6 Explicit and Implicit Religious Life and Teaching lOB PART TWO; THEOLOGY OF JEWISH EDUCATION 7 Norms Despite Modernity: Explicit Educational Theology 129 8 Encounter and Deliberation: Implicit Educational Theology 151 9 Standards and Spontaneity: A Theology ofJewish Education 170 vi Contents PART THREE: ATHEORY OF RELIGIOUS JEWISH EDUCATION 10 From Theology to Theory of Religious Education 191 11 Educating the Loyal Jew: Theory ofExplicit Teaching 207 12 Cultivating the Authentic Jewish Individual: Them}, ofImplicit Teaching 228 13 The Elements ofReligious Jewish Education 250 Conclusion 270 Notes 274 Acknowledgments 303 Index 305 ...