TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharot,Stephen
TI  - Comparative perspectives on judaisms and Jewish identities 
SN  - 9780814334010
U1  - 296.089 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Detroit 
PB  - Wayne State University Press
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Comparative studies
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Relations
KW  - Messianic Judaism
KW  - Antinomianism
KW  - History of doctrines
N1  - 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
ER  -