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Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities

Title
Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities / Stephen Sharot.
Author
Sharot, Stephen.
Publication
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2011.

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xi, 317 p.; 26 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
*PYB 11-285
ISBN
  • 9780814334010 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0814334016 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010013497
OCLC
YBP 2010013497
Author
Sharot, Stephen.
Title
Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities / Stephen Sharot.
Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
*PYB 11-285
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