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Definition:
The maskilim, whose label is derived from the Hebrew word for "the enlightened
ones," were Jews who participated in secular and rationalistic scholarship in
the 18th and 19th centuries in an effort acculturate Jews to modern secular societies
in the West.
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What is Theism?
What is the difference between monotheism and monolatry? Between pantheism and panentheism? How about between animism and shamanism? Or theism and deism? What the heck is henotheism? For that matter, what is and is not a religion?What is Religion?
A system of human beliefs, ideals and practices which is harder to define than it may at first appear.
