PDF-(BOOS)-Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age (Princeton Studies in Culture

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world in person and online while remaining in their ultraOrthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known Hidden Heretics tells the fascinating often heartwrenching stories of married ultraOrthodox Jewish men and women in twentyfirstcentury New York who lead double lives in order to protect those they love While they no longer believe that God gave the Torah to Jews at Mount Sinai these hidden heretics continue to live in their families and religious communities even as they surreptitiously break Jewish commandments and explore forbidden secular worlds in person and online Drawing on five years of fieldwork with those living double lives and the rabbis life coaches and religious therapists who minister to advise and sometimes excommunicate them Ayala Fader investigates religious doubt and social change in the digital ageThe internet which some ultraOrthodox rabbis call more threatening than the Holocaust offers new possibilities for the ageold problem of religious uncertainty Fader shows how digital media has become a lightning rod for contemporary struggles over authority and truth She reveals the stresses and strains that hidden heretics experience including the difficulties their choices pose for their wives husbands children and sometimes lovers In following those living double lives who range from the religiously observant but openminded on one end to atheists on the other Fader delves into universal quandaries of faith and skepticism the ways digital media can change us and family frictions that arise when a person radically transforms who they are and what they believeIn stories of conflicts between faith and selffulfillment Hidden Heretics explores the moral compromises and divided loyalties of individuals facing lifealtering crossroads. 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