Continuity Commitment And Survival

Author : Sol Encel
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuity, Commitment, and Survival written by Sol Encel and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of continuity, survival, and identity have generated apparently unending debates throughout the Jewish world for centuries. While similar issues arise in all Jewish communities, there are significant differences between them. This collection was designed to highlight differences as well as similarities by devoting a chapter to each of seven countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In four communities-those in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States-debates about continuity are mainly concerned with the loss of Jewish identity through assimilation. In Argentina and South Africa, the main issue is with physical survival in the face of chaotic social conditions. In France, although the situation is less dire, the community feels threatened by the rise of xenophobic political movements and the hostility of Arab groups. Apart from external factors, all the contributors review debates over the relative importance of religion and ethnic identity, and the contrasting positions taken by religious leaders and secularists. While the study offers no clear-cut answers, it does aim to broaden the debate by exposing national differences.

Author : Geoffrey Brahm Levey
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837642389
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and Australian Politics written by Geoffrey Brahm Levey and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the contemporary politics of Australian Jewry. This book situates the politics of Australian Jews through comparisons with general patterns in Australian politics, the politics of other minorities in Australia, and the politics of other Western Jewish communities. It contains an appendix of Jewish Parliamentarians.

Author : Michel S. Laguerre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136775390
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Network Governance of Global Religions written by Michel S. Laguerre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to explain three models of network governance embedded in digital practices that the mainstream monotheistic religions—Judaism, Catholic Christianity, and Islam—have used to lead and manage the worldwide distribution of their local nodes, exploring the connection between network governance and its digital embeddedness and showing how the latter enhances the performance of the former.

Author : Judit Bokser de Liwerant
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004154426
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism written by Judit Bokser de Liwerant and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu.The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajectories and current challenges, the articles analyze the transnational, regional and local processes that inform the different Jewish Diasporas and Israel. Simultaneously, its content provides a snapshot of the current state of research on collective identity building processes and a lively analysis of the challenges posed by cultural diversity and primordial and civic belongings in the framework of political transitions, as well as new and old forms of expressing through cultural creativity individual and collective identities. This volume is also available in paperback.

Author : Keith Kahn-Harris
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441101551
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turbulent Times written by Keith Kahn-Harris and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of contemporary British Jewry , Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990. Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley contend that there has been a shift within Jewish communal discourse from a strategy of security, which emphasized Anglo-Jewry's secure British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the dangers and threats Jews face individually and communally. This shift is part of a process of renewal in the community that has led to something of a 'Jewish renaissance' in Britain. Addressing key questions on the transitions in the history of Anglo-Jewish community and leadership, and tackling the concept of the 'new antisemitism', this important and timely study addresses the question: how has UK Jewry adapted from a shift from monoculturalism to multiculturalism?

Author : Mariam Youssef
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498579108
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendered Paradigms in Theologies of Survival written by Mariam Youssef and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendered Paradigms in Theologies of Survival: Silenced to Survive is a book about women in survival communities and the ways that survival and theology are used to shut down women's voices. Mariam Youssef examines the ways in which the condition of survival puts religious women in a bind by embedding paradigms into theology that, more often than not, reinforce women's subordination as a condition of survival. Women in survival communities are not only grappling with the existential threat that comes with their survival identities but also struggling to make their voices heard within their own communities where their needs are frequently put on the back burner. Survival communities often find themselves responding to their trauma in ways that prescribe strict patriarchal norms, promoting notions of gender binary and compulsory heterosexuality.

Author : Rebekah Sheldon
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452953082
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Child to Come written by Rebekah Sheldon and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children’s Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet’s uncertain future return us—again and again—to the image of the child? In The Child to Come, Rebekah Sheldon demonstrates the pervasive conjunction of the imperiled child and the threatened Earth and blisteringly critiques the logic of catastrophe that serves as its motive and its method. Sheldon explores representations of this perilous future and the new figurations of the child that have arisen in response to it. Analyzing catastrophe discourse from the 1960s to the present—books by Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, and Cormac McCarthy; films and television series including Southland Tales, Battlestar Galactica, and Children of Men; and popular environmentalism—Sheldon finds the child standing in the place of the human species, coordinating its safe passage into the future through the promise of one more generation. Yet, she contends, the child figure emerges bound to the very forces of nonhuman vitality he was forged to contain. Bringing together queer theory, ecocriticism, and science studies, The Child to Come draws on and extends arguments in childhood studies about the interweaving of the child with the life sciences. Sheldon reveals that neither life nor the child are what they used to be. Under pressure from ecological change, artificial reproductive technology, genetic engineering, and the neoliberalization of the economy, the queerly human child signals something new: the biopolitics of reproduction. By promising the pliability of the body’s vitality, the pregnant woman and the sacred child have become the paradigmatic figures for twenty-first century biopolitics.

Author : Sergio Della Pergola
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9789652293466
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Planning Assessment, 2004-2005 written by Sergio Della Pergola and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises three main parts: The first includes five broad overviews of the current status of Jewish affairs. The second part includes six chapters, each of which reviews the main recent trends and policy issues relevant to Jewish life in six world regions which articulate contemporary Jewish life: North America; Latin America; Europe and the European Union; the Former Soviet Union; Asia, Africa, and the Pacific; and Israel. The third part introduces an overview of the goals and tasks accomplished by the main Jewish institutions and organizations worldwide in the definition and defense of Jewish interests.

Author : Uzi Rebhun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199363498
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Scientific Study of Jewry written by Uzi Rebhun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Author : Steven Martin Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Content Or Continuity? written by Steven Martin Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article uses survey research to discuss what Jews mean by their Jewishness. Most Jews are proud to be Jewish, they value the forms of Jewish life - e.g., family gatherings and food. Only a small minority of 10-15 percent are totally unaffiliated with the organized Jewish community. The overwhelming majority do express commitv ment to Jewish continuity and identify themselves with the traditional labels of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism. The weakness in Jewish life, however, lies in the realm of Judaic content. Jews have difficulty formulating a distinctive Jewish identity - informed by knowledge of both Jewish heritage and democratic American norms. For example, Jews appear the most secular of American social groups. Being Jewish is all too often an instinctual reaction to perceived anti-Semitism or to threats to Israel's existence rather than statements of theological or spiritual content. Cohen's study suggests that the traditional communal agenda of safeguarding Israel, defense against anti-Semitism, and social liberalism is insufficient to guarantee the content of the Jewish future. Jews require initiatives that will enhance the quality of Jewish life, communicate the richness of Jewish tradition, and underscore the spiritual basis of Jewish identity. Cohen suggests that communal initiatives be targeted to the "middles" of Jewish life - those who demonstrate a minimal or marginal commitment to the Jewish community and whose Jewish identity can therefore be enhanced.