Beyond Yiddishkeit

Author : Frida K. Furman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438403502

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Beyond Yiddishkeit by Frida K. Furman Pdf

"Beyond Yiddishkeit deals in an intelligent and perceptive way with the issue of Jewish identity in an affluent and highly educated suburban community. Particularly significant is that it relies upon participant observation, as well as ethnographic interview techniques and data, on the part of the author. In this way, the work constitutes the first major study of this type conducted within the liberal Jewish American community. As such, it is a "pioneering" work. Equally impressive is the author's command of the sociological literature on issues of identity and her ability to apply it to the data gathered in this study. She makes sociological jargon intelligible and presents an easily-read and well-constructed book. Her ability throughout the work to focus on issues of modernity is insightful and brilliant. I found myself racing through the book and, indeed, read it in one sitting. This really is an unparalleled work in this field." — David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion

Author : Frida Kerner Furman
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0819195073

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Beyond Yiddishkeit by Frida Kerner Furman Pdf

Author : James L. Furrow,Linda M. Wagener
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135065928

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Beyond the Self by James L. Furrow,Linda M. Wagener Pdf

Beyond the Self grew out of a conference of developmental scientists who examined the ways that young people were developing understandings of self that anchored youth to something larger than their own personal competencies and success. Each of the papers drew on the question of how one locates the formation of identity within the scope of different transcending demands or influences. This special issue is organized into three parts--moral, civic, and cultural and religous identity--but are not exclusive in their focus on these themes as many of the sections provide a more integrated view of human development. In sum, these articles recognize that the search for identity and purpose within adolescence is informed by a multiplicity of voices.

Author : Stephen Sharot
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antinomianism
ISBN : 0814334016

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Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities by Stephen Sharot Pdf

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

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521365597

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American Studies by Jack Salzman Pdf

This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Author : Frida Furman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781136785764

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Facing the Mirror by Frida Furman Pdf

The women at Julie's International Salon share their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring. Their own words are at the center of the book; the stories of their lives, fresh and compelling, are told here with affection. But beyond the stories themselves, Frida Kerner Furman explores the socio-moral significance of these beauty shop experiences, showing how they reveal as much about society at large as about older women. For in telling us how they perceive reality, make choices, and live in their worlds, the women of Julie's expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the larger world that all of us, young or old, beautiful or not, face every day.

Author : Alan Wolfe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0743228391

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The Transformation of American Religion by Alan Wolfe Pdf

American religion - like talk of God - is omnipresent. Popular culture is awash in religious messages, from the singing cucumbers and tomatoes of the animated VeggieTales series to the bestselling "Left Behind" books to the multiplex sensation The Passion of the Christ. In The Transformation of American Religion, sociologist Alan Wolfe argues that the popularity of these cartoons, books, and movies is proof that religion has become increasingly mainstream. In fact, Wolfe argues, American culture has come to dominate American religion to such a point that, as Wolfe writes, "We are all mainstream now." The Transformation of American Religion represents the first systematic effort in more than fifty years to bring together a wide body of literature about worship, fellowship, doctrine, tradition, identity, and sin to examine how Americans actually live their faith. Emphasizing personal stories, Wolfe takes readers to religious services across the nation-an Episcopal congregation in Massachusetts, a Catholic Mass in a suburb of Detroit, an Orthodox Jewish temple in Boston-to show that the stereotype of religion as a fire-and-brimstone affair is obsolete. Gone is the language of sin and damnation, and forgotten are the clear delineations between denominations; they have been replaced with a friendly God and a trend towards sampling new creeds and doctrines. Overall, Wolfe reveals American religion as less radical, less contentious, and less dangerous than it is generally perceived to be.

Author : Henry Bial
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 047206908X

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Acting Jewish by Henry Bial Pdf

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Author : Elliott Abrams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780684825113

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Faith Or Fear by Elliott Abrams Pdf

The author addresses the loss of Jewish identity in a Christian Society, and calls for Jews to return to their heritage.

Author : Armand L. Mauss
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0252020715

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The Angel and the Beehive by Armand L. Mauss Pdf

"The past few decades have witnessed an increasing reaction of the Mormons against their own successful assimilation", Armand Mauss writes in The Angel and the Beehive, "as though trying to recover some of the cultural tension and special identity associated with their earlier 'sect-like' history". This retrenchment among Mormons is the main theme of Mauss's book, which analyzes the last forty years of Mormon history from a sociological perspective. At the official ecclesiastical level, Mauss finds, the retrenchment can be seen in the greatly increased centralization of bureaucratic control and in renewed emphases on obedience to modern prophets, on genealogy and vicarious temple work, and on traditional family life; retrenchment is also apparent in extensive formal religious indoctrination by full-time professionals and in an increased sophistication and intensity of proselytizing. At what he refers to as "the folk or grassroots level", Mauss finds that Mormons have generally been compliant with the retrenchment effort and are today at least as "religious" on most measures as they were in the 1960s. A sizable segment of the Mormon membership, Mauss asserts, has gone beyond "Mormon" retrenchment to express itself in a growing resort to Protestant fundamentalism, both in scriptural understanding and in intellectual style. The author calls on a wide array of sources in sociology and history to show that Mormons, who by mid-century had come a long way from their position as disreputable "outsiders" in a society dominated by the mainline religions, seem now to be adopting more conservative ways and seeking a return to a more sectarian posture.

Author : Ernest Krausz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000951257

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Jewish Survival by Ernest Krausz Pdf

These essays address Jewish identity, Jewish survival, and Jewish continuity. The authors account for and analyze trends in Jewish identification and the reciprocal effects of the relationship between the Diaspora and Israel at the end of the twentieth century.Jewish identification in contemporary society is a complex phenomenon. Since the emancipation of Jews in Europe and the major historic events of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel, there have been substantial changes in the collective Jewish identity. As a result, Jewish identity and the Jewish process of identification had to confront the new realities of an open society, its economic globalization, and the impacts of cultural pluralism. The trends in Jewish identification are toward fewer and weaker points of attachment: fewer Jews who hold religious beliefs with such beliefs held less strongly; less religious ritual observance; attachment to Zionism and Israel becoming diluted; and ethnic communal bonds weakening. Jews are also more involved in the wider society in the Diaspora due to fewer barriers and less overt anti-Semitism. This opens up possibilities for cultural integration and assimilation. In Israel, too, there are signs of greater interest in the modern world culture. The major questions addressed by this volume is whether Jewish civilization will continue to provide the basic social framework and values that will lead Jews into the twenty-first century and ensure their survival as a specific social entity.The book contains special contributions by Professor Julius Gould and Professor Irving Louis Horowitz and chapters on "Sociological Analysis of Jewish Identity"; "Jewish Community Boundaries"; and "Factual Accounts from the Diaspora and Israel."

Author : Faydra Shapiro
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773575868

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Building Jewish Roots by Faydra Shapiro Pdf

Thousands of young North American Jews visit Israel every year on organized, educational, heritage tours. Israel Experience Programs present religion, homeland, and nation to participants in compelling and sometimes unsettling ways. Supported by Jewish communal institutions, these programs are encouraged for their presumed value in combating assimilation and a loss of Jewish culture. Faydra Shapiro suggests that their real success may lie elsewhere.

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 081353206X

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Jews in the Center by Jack Wertheimer Pdf

Addressing provocative questions on synagogue participation and modern values, eight contributors discuss the findings of the North American Study of Conservative Synagogues and Their Members, 1995-96, within the landscape of American religion. The study is based on new research and a reanalysis of the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey. Wertheimer teaches American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Joe R. Feagin,Anthony M. Orum,Gideon Sjoberg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469621401

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A Case for the Case Study by Joe R. Feagin,Anthony M. Orum,Gideon Sjoberg Pdf

Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative research: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case study research in order to understand changes in church involvement, city life, gender roles, white-collar crimes, family structure, homelessness, and other types of social experience. Each contributor confronts several key questions: What does the case study tell us that other approaches cannot? To what extent can one generalize from the study of a single case or of a highly limited set of cases? Does case study work provide the basis for postulating broad principles of social structure and behavior? The answers vary, but the consensus is that the opportunity to examine certain kinds of social phenomena in depth enables social scientists to advance greatly our empirical understanding of social life. The contributors are Leon Anderson, Howard M. Bahr, Theodore Caplow, Joe R. Feagin, Gilbert Geis, Gerald Handel, Anthonly M. Orum, Andree F. Sjoberg, Gideon Sjoberg, David A. Snow, Ted R. Vaughan, R. Stephen Warner, Christine L. Williams, and Norma Williams.

Author : Harvey E. Goldberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520935723

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The Life of Judaism by Harvey E. Goldberg Pdf

Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture offers a much-needed addition to more traditional views advanced in the study of Judaism. Through ethnographic and autobiographical perspectives, the essays provide an appreciation of Judaism in daily activities, from domestic food preparation to worshipping; Jewish attachment to the cultures of specific communities, be they in Russia or Morocco; the impact of the Holocaust; the place of the State of Israel in Jewish life; and the role of women. Harvey E. Goldberg, a leading scholar in the anthropology of Judaism, provides an introduction to each chapter that demonstrates the links among the various themes. Ease of communication and travel has resulted in frequent contact--and at times, conflict--between Jews of similar and diverging backgrounds around the world. Visiting distinctive Jewish spaces has become a way of cultivating specific identities and senses of a Jewish past. As ritual, prayers, and attitudes toward authority undergo new constructions and interpretation, Judaism of "the book" also takes on new forms. These essays go a long way in helping us understand a contemporary and multifaceted Judaism, along with its history and texts.