Sharot, Stephen. <br/><br/>
Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities / 
Stephen Sharot. 
 - Detroit :  Wayne State University Press,  ©2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 317 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-312) and index. 
<br/><br/>Religious 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814337011 0814337015 0814334016 9780814334010 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Antinomianism--History of doctrines.<br/>Messianic Judaism.<br/>Judaism--Relations.<br/>Ethnic relations.<br/>Ethnicity.<br/>Jews--Identity.<br/>Judaism--Comparative studies.<br/>Judaism--History.<br/>RELIGION--Judaism--General.<br/>Antinomianism--History of doctrines.<br/>Ethnic relations.<br/>Ethnicity.<br/>Jews--Identity.<br/>Judaism.<br/>Interfaith relations.<br/>Messianic Judaism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Comparative studies.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM155.3  / .S53 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.089