04793nam 2200757Ia 450 991096717720332120200520144314.097808143370110814337015(CKB)2560000000101979(OCoLC)821735174(CaPaEBR)ebrary10715474(SSID)ssj0000606270(PQKBManifestationID)11973770(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606270(PQKBWorkID)10580494(PQKB)11391498(MiAaPQ)EBC3416575(MdBmJHUP)muse11008(Au-PeEL)EBL3416575(CaPaEBR)ebr10715474(MiAaPQ)EBC31349296(Au-PeEL)EBL31349296(Perlego)4160351(EXLCZ)99256000000010197920100401d2011 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrComparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities /Stephen Sharot1st ed.Detroit Wayne State University Pressc20111 online resource (332 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780814334010 0814334016 Includes bibliographical references 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.Provides sociological analyses of religious developments and identities in both historical and contemporary Jewish communities. In Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities author Stephen Sharot uses his work published in journals and collected volumes over the past thirty-five years to examine a range of Jewish communities across both time and geography. Sharot's sociological analyses consider religious developments and identities in diverse Jewish communities from Imperial China and Renaissance Italy to contemporary Israel and the United States. As Sharot examines these groups, other religions enter into the discussion as well, not only as major elements in the environments of Jewish communities but also with respect to certain religious phenomena that too have been present in Judaism. The book is divided into four parts: the first compares religious developments in pre-modern and early modern Jewish communities; the second focuses on Jewish religious movements, especially messianic-millennial and antinomian, in the pre-modern and early modern period; the third examines Jewish religious and ethnic identities in the modern period; and the fourth relates developments in Judaism in the modern period to theoretical debates on secularization, fundamentalism, and public religion in the sociology of religion. The afterword sums up the findings of the previous sections and compares the boundaries and boundary shifts among Jewish communities. As the plural "Judaisms" in the title indicates, Sharot discusses extensive differences in the religious characteristics between Jewish communities. Scholars of religion and sociology will appreciate this informative and fascinating volume. JudaismHistoryJudaismComparative studiesJewsIdentityEthnicityEthnic relationsJudaismRelationsMessianic JudaismAntinomianismHistory of doctrinesJudaismHistory.JudaismJewsIdentity.Ethnicity.Ethnic relations.JudaismRelations.Messianic Judaism.AntinomianismHistory of doctrines.296.089Sharot Stephen880897MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967177203321Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities4354956UNINA