Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities / Stephen Sharot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharot, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

History.

Judaism--Comparative studies.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Ethnicity.

Ethnic relations.

Judaism--Relations.

Relations.

Messianic Judaism.

Antinomianism--History of doctrines.

Antinomianism.

Genre:

Comparative studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 317 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, [2011]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814334010

0814334016

OCLC:

606234815