TY - BOOK AU - Ruderman ,David B. TI - Converts of Conviction T2 - Studies and Texts in Scepticism PY - 2017/// CY - Berlin, Germany PB - De Gruyter KW - Judaism KW - Literature KW - Religion KW - Society N2 - The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially in religions, perhaps most notably in Judaism. In such cultural contexts scepticism manifests as a critical attitude towards different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and towards religious and political authorities. It is not merely an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but a critical form of life that expresses itself in such diverse phenomena as religion, literature, and society UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/27425/1/9783110530797.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27425 ER -