Comparing Jewish Societies
Author: Todd M. Endelman
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 369
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Author: Todd M. Endelman
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 369
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Todd M. Endelman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780472065929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces a rigorous comparative dimension to the study of Jewish civilization and culture
Author: Stephen Sharot
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780814334010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides sociological analyses of religious developments and identities in both historical and contemporary Jewish communities.
Author: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1438401930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains why the best way to understand the Jewish historical experience is to look at Jewish people, not just as a religious or ethnic group or a nation or "people," but, as bearers of civilization. This approach helps to explain the greatest riddle of Jewish civilization, namely, its continuity despite destruction, exile, and loss of political independence. In the first part of the book, Eisenstadt compares Jewish life and religious orientations and practices with Hellenistic and Roman civilizations, as well as with Christian and Islamic civilizations. In the second part of the book, he analyzes the modern period with its different patterns of incorporation of Jewish communities into European and American societies; national movements that developed among Jews toward the end of the nineteenth century, especially the Zionist movement; and specific characteristics of Israeli society. The major question Eisenstadt poses is to what extent the characteristics of the Jewish experience are distinctive, in comparison to other ethnic and religious minorities incorporated into modern nation-states, or other revolutionary ideological settler societies. He demonstrates through his case studies the continuous creativity of Jewish civilization.
Author: Maristella Botticini
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0691144877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.
Author: John Corrigan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 1317346998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThematic examination of monotheistic religions The second edition of Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions, compares Judaism, Christianity, and Islam using seven common themes which are equally relevant to each tradition. Provoking critical thinking, this text addresses the cultural framework of religious meanings and explores the similarities and differences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as it explains the ongoing process of interpretation in each religion. The book is designed for courses in Western and World Religions.
Author: Alexander McCaul
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Published: 1837
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Derek Penslar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-01-24
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 113414668X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as: modern Jewish society, politics and culture historical consciousness in the twentieth century colonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonial state-building. With its open-ended, comparative approach, Israel in History provides a useful means of correcting the biases found in so much scholarship on Israel, be it sympathetic or hostile. This book will appeal to scholars and students with research interests in many fields, including Israeli Studies, Middle East Studies, and Jewish Studies.
Author: Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-05-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9047409647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre Jews today still the carriers of a single and identical collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This two-fold question arises when one compares a Hassidi Habad from Brooklyn, a Jewish professor at a secular university in Brussels, a traditional Yemeni Jew still living in Sana’a, a Galilee kibbutznik, or a Russian Jew in Novossibirsk. Is there still today a significant relationship between these individuals who all subscribe to Judaism? The analysis shows that the Jewish identity is multiple and can be explained by considering all variants as “surface structures” of the three universal “deep structures” central to the notion of collective identity, namely, collective commitment, perceptions of the collective’s singularity, and positioning vis-à-vis “others.”
Author: Jaco Beyers
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2017-08-31
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1928355188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKÿ In a religious pluralistic society the other cannot be ignored, even less so when there is a familial relationship between religions. The way in which Judaism and Christianity relate can be conceptualised in many different forms, depending on the theory one subscribes to. Did Judaism and Christianity derive from a common ancestor? Did Christianity spring from Judaism and, if so, when? Why did the final cut between the two take place? Did Christianity replace Judaism? If so, how can the relationship between them now be described? Before interaction between the two religions is possible, an honest and unbiased attempt to understand each other must be mutual. This is a painful and difficult exercise as Christians and Jews seem to have been at odds since forever. This publication is not the final word on the relationship, but perhaps it serves as an invitation to Jews and Christians for peaceful engagement.