LEADER 04793nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910967177203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780814337011 010 $a0814337015 035 $a(CKB)2560000000101979 035 $a(OCoLC)821735174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10715474 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606270 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11973770 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606270 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580494 035 $a(PQKB)11391498 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416575 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11008 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416575 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10715474 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31349296 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31349296 035 $a(Perlego)4160351 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000101979 100 $a20100401d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aComparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities /$fStephen Sharot 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDetroit $cWayne State University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780814334010 311 08$a0814334016 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReligious 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. 330 8 $aProvides 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. 606 $aJudaism$xHistory 606 $aJudaism$vComparative studies 606 $aJews$xIdentity 606 $aEthnicity 606 $aEthnic relations 606 $aJudaism$xRelations 606 $aMessianic Judaism 606 $aAntinomianism$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory. 615 0$aJudaism 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 615 0$aEthnicity. 615 0$aEthnic relations. 615 0$aJudaism$xRelations. 615 0$aMessianic Judaism. 615 0$aAntinomianism$xHistory of doctrines. 676 $a296.089 700 $aSharot$b Stephen$0880897 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967177203321 996 $aComparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities$94354956 997 $aUNINA