This cutting-edge volume addresses central questions and issues animating Judaism, Jewish identity, and Jewish society in the 21st Century in a global, integrated, and forward-looking way, through the prism of three contemporary sets of issues: identities and geographies; structures and power; and knowledge and performances.

This volume places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice. The Handbook reveals the deep philosophical roots of its key categories and then advances new critical analytics, such as queer materialities, inescapable material entanglements, and hyperobjects.