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Sternheim, Emanuel : THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGION FOR HUMANITY: BACCALAUREATE SERMON AT THE NEBRASKA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WAYNE NEBRASKA, MAY TWENTIETH, 1917

Wayne, Nebraska State Normal School At Wayne, 1917

First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 8 pages; 23 cm. Rabbi Emanuel Sternheim was a progressive rabbi, born and ordained in London. “Influenced by the young Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue of New York, who had come to London to address the Jewish Religious Union, he decided to emigrate to the United States in 1911. Although less politically active and influential, Sternheim shared Wise’s philosophy of social action and progressivism. Sternheim’s first American pulpit was in Greenville, Mississippi (in 1913) , and in the following year he received a call from Temple B’nai Israel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He served as president of the Louisiana Social Hygiene Association, taking a leading role in the sex hygiene movement, which attempted to change attitudes toward sex by endeavoring to influence the social environment through education and legislation” (American Jewish Historical Quarterly Vol.64, No. 4, page 358) . “As I conceive an invitation to preach a Baccalaureate sermon to a member of my faith, it is an invitation to deal with religion in its broadest aspects. You will not expect from me, and I shall certainly make no attempt to give you, a doctrinal exposition of dogmatic religion. I am going to make an attempt to bring you a conception of the outcome of the period of passionate protest in which we are living, a period that is going to sharply and for all time end the narrower conception of religion which has hitherto prevailed. This is perhaps an optimistic viewpoint, for every age has approached the great question of universal religion in its own way, and succeeding ages have rejected the viewpoint of the preceding ones. ” SUBJECT(S) : Religion, Philosophy, Faith and reason. OCLC lists 1 holding worldwide (Oberlin) . Minimal staining. Slight toning. Very minimal edgewear. Very good condition. Rare. (AMR-53-9)

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