Comparative perspectives on judaisms and Jewish identities
Sharot, Stephen
Comparative perspectives on judaisms and Jewish identities - Detroit Wayne State University Press 2011 - xi, 317p. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-312) and index.
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.
9780814334010
2010013497
Judaism--History.
Judaism--Comparative studies.
Jews--Identity.
Ethnicity.
Ethnic relations.
Judaism--Relations.
Messianic Judaism.
Antinomianism--History of doctrines.
296.089 / SH-C
Comparative perspectives on judaisms and Jewish identities - Detroit Wayne State University Press 2011 - xi, 317p. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-312) and index.
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.
9780814334010
2010013497
Judaism--History.
Judaism--Comparative studies.
Jews--Identity.
Ethnicity.
Ethnic relations.
Judaism--Relations.
Messianic Judaism.
Antinomianism--History of doctrines.
296.089 / SH-C