reconstructionist meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

reconstructionist

nounalso spelled Reconstructionist

Etymology From reconstruction + -ist.

Someone who attempts to reestablish an ancient or historic religion in the modern era.

One who builds a reconstruction of a scene or event.

As with biomechanics, the majority of traffic accident reconstructionists work primarily for insurance industry.2005, Larry S. Nordhoff, Motor Vehicle Collision Injuries, page 34:

adj

Judaism Of or pertaining to Reconstructionist Judaism.

Rabbi Sherry Shulewitz, associate executive director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, explains that in the Reconstructionist view, “conversion is a gateway to membership in the Jewish people and a gift that the Jewish people offer new members.”1998, Shelley Kapnek Rosenberg, Adoption and the Jewish Family: Contemporary Perspectives, Philadelphia and Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 13:

noun

Judaism Someone who adheres to Reconstructionist Judaism.

Reconstructionists view the Jewish people as the unchanging constant through history in which beliefs, practices, and institutions have continuously evolved.2007 August 28, Jacob J. Staub, edited by Stephen H. Norwood, Eunice G. Pollack, Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, volume 1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 93:

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