Judaism: Reform Judaism
FOUNDED: Early nineteenth century C.E.
RELIGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION: .06 percent
Overview
Reform Judaism is a movement that believes in modifying traditional Jewish law and practice to make it consistent with contemporary social and cultural conditions. The movement began in the early nineteenth century, when Jewish reformers, responding to political and other changes in western and central Europe, began altering the Jewish worship service. Over time rabbis and laypeople sympathetic to these changes coalesced as a distinct group, and by the middle of the century, they had developed a set of ideological principles distinct from traditional Jewish.....
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