TY - BOOK AU - Fader,Ayala TI - Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age T2 - Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology SN - 9780691169903 AV - BM198.4.N49 F33 2020 U1 - 296.832097471 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Judaism and secularism KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Social media KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - Ultra-Orthodox Jews KW - Cultural assimilation KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Relations KW - Ultra-orthodox Jews KW - Non-traditional Jews KW - RELIGION / Judaism / Orthodox KW - bisacsh KW - Ashkenazic Jewish Orthodoxy KW - Barbara Myerhoff KW - Becoming Unorthodox KW - Bible KW - Biblical KW - Hasid KW - Hasidic Rebel KW - Hasidic KW - Haskalah KW - Hella Winston KW - ILC KW - Jblogger KW - Jewish Enlighteners KW - Jewish Enlightenment KW - Jewish Orthodoxy KW - Jewish bloggers KW - Jewish blogs KW - Jewish studies KW - Jewish theology KW - Keith Basso KW - Lynn Davidman KW - Menachem Friedman KW - Mindy Blumenthal KW - Mishpacha KW - Moses KW - Number Our Days KW - Nurit Stadler KW - Rabbi Tessler KW - Sabbath KW - Samuel Heilman KW - Shtreimel KW - Tanya Luhrmann KW - The Rebbe KW - Ultra-Orthodoxy KW - Unchosen KW - WhatsApp KW - When God Talks Back KW - Wisdom Sits in Places KW - Yeshiva Fundamentalism KW - Yeshivish KW - Yiddish KW - Yinglish KW - anthropology of religion KW - anti-internet rallies KW - asifes KW - aufgeklert KW - banishment KW - closeted KW - commandments and prohibitions KW - crisis of emine KW - crisis of faith KW - discursive traditions KW - double lifers KW - emine kashes KW - emune KW - excommunication KW - frum KW - glitching KW - haskule KW - in the closet KW - kaylim KW - koyfer KW - maskilim KW - matan toyre KW - mitzves KW - old Testament KW - rabbinic advisors KW - rabbinic leaders KW - rebbes KW - religion KW - religious exile KW - shul KW - synagogue KW - teknologia KW - ultra-Orthodox bloggers KW - ultra-Orthodox life coaches KW - women’s studies KW - yayster hore N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Life-Changing Doubt, the Internet, and a Crisis of Authority --; PART I --; 2. The Jewish Blogosphere and the Heretical Counterpublic --; 3. Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis versus the Internet --; PART II --; 4. The Morality of a Married Double Life --; 5. The Treatment of Doubt --; 6. Double-Life Worlds --; 7. Family Secrets --; 8. Endings and Beginnings --; Appendix. What You Need to Know about Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Languages --; Glossary --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox 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 heart-wrenching stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in twenty-first-century 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 age.The internet, which some ultra-Orthodox rabbis call more threatening than the Holocaust, offers new possibilities for the age-old 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 open-minded 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 believe.In stories of conflicts between faith and self-fulfillment, Hidden Heretics explores the moral compromises and divided loyalties of individuals facing life-altering crossroads UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691201481?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691201481 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691201481/original ER -