Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Detroit, Mich. :
Wayne State University Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Religious syncretism and religious distinctiveness
- The Kaifeng Jews : a reconsideration of their acculturation and assimilation in a comparative perspective
- Elite religion and popular religion : the example of saints
- Jewish millenarian-messianic movements : comparisons of Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Italian Jews
- Millenarianism among conversos (new Christians) and former conversos (returnees to Judaism)
- The sacredness of sin : antinomianism and models of man
- Formulations of ethnicity and religion regarding American Jews in the writings of American sociologists
- Judaism and Jewish ethnicity : changing interrelationships and differentiations in the diaspora and Israel
- Jewish and other national and ethnic identities of Israeli Jews
- Secularization, neotraditionalism, polarization
- Public religion, privatization, and deprivatization in Israel.