Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities

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Provides sociological analyses of religious developments and identities in Jewish communities, both historical and contemporary.

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Preface	p. ix
Wide Comparisons, Within and Without
Introduction to Part 1	p. 3
Religious Syncretism and Religious Distinctiveness	p. 10
The Kaifeng Jews: A Reconsideration of Their Acculturation and Assimilation in a Comparative Perspective	p. 42
Elite Religion and Popular Religion: The Example of Saints	p. 58
Afterword to Part 1	p. 80
Religious Movements
Introduction to Part 2	p. 85
Jewish Millenarian-Messianic Movements: Comparisons of Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Italian Jews	p. 91
Millenarianism Among Conversos (New Christians) and Former Conversos (Returnees to Judaism)	p. 105
The Sacredness of Sin: Antinomianism and Models of Man	p. 123
Afterword to Part 2	p. 139
Jewish Identities
Introduction to Part 3	p. 145
Formulations of Ethnicity and Religion Regarding American Jews in the Writings of American Sociologists	p. 151
Judaism and Jewish Ethnicity: Changing Interrelationships and Differentiations in the Diaspora and Israel	p. 167
Jewish and Other National and Ethnic Identities of Israeli Jews	p. 183
Afterword to Part 3	p. 197
Judaism in the Sociology of Religion
Introduction to Part 4	p. 201
Secularization, Neotraditionalism, Polarization	p. 206
Public Religion, Privatization, and Deprivatization in Israel	p. 232
Afterword to Part 4	p. 253
A Final Afterword-Boundaries: Comparisons and Shifts	p. 257
Notes	p. 263
Index	p. 313
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