reconstructionism

reconstructionism
\\|rē+\ noun
Etymology: reconstruction + -ism
: adherence to or advocacy of reconstruction; specifically often capitalized : a movement in 20th century American Judaism influenced by Conservative Judaism and by pragmatism that advocates a creative adjustment of Jewish life to contemporary conditions by stressing the cultivation of traditions and folkways shared by all Jews as a basis for reconstructing historic Judaism into a religious civilization that would transcend denominationalism and ensure the unity and survival of the Jewish people

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/ree'keuhn struk"sheuh niz'euhm/, n.
a 20th-century movement among U.S. Jews, founded by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, advocating that Judaism, being a culture and way of life as well as a religion, is in sum a religious civilization requiring constant adaptation to contemporary conditions so that Jews can identify more readily and meaningfully with the Jewish community.
[1940-45; RECONSTRUCTION + -ISM]

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