Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities
By: Stephen Sharot
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780814334010
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious syncretism and religious distinctiveness; title: The Kaifeng Jews : a reconsideration of their acculturation and assimilation in a comparative perspective; title: Elite religion and popular religion : the example of saints; title: Jewish millenarian-messianic movements : comparisons of Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Italian Jews; title: Millenarianism among conversos (new Christians) and former conversos (returnees to Judaism); title: The sacredness of sin : antinomianism and models of man; title: Formulations of ethnicity and religion regarding American Jews in the writings of American sociologists; title: Judaism and Jewish ethnicity : changing interrelationships and differentiations in the diaspora and Israel; title: Jewish and other national and ethnic identities of Israeli Jews; title: Secularization, neotraditionalism, polarization; title: Public religion, privatization, and deprivatization in Israel.