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Cosmopolitans and Parochials
Modern Orthodox Jews in America
Av Samuel C. Heilman, Steven M. Cohen
Inbunden, 1989
552 kr
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Far from simply vanishing in the face of modernity, Orthodox Jews in the United States today are surviving and flourishing. Samuel C. Heilman and Steven M. Cohen, both distinguished scholars of Jewish studies, have joined forces in this pathbreaking book to articulate this vibrancy and to …
Accounting for Fundamentalisms
The Dynamic Character of Movements
Av Martin E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
535 kr
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Accounting for Fundamentalisms features treatments of fundamentalist movements, groups that often make headlines but are rarely understood, as part of the multivolume Fundamentalism Project. This book remains a standard reference source for comprehending the dynamics of fundamentalist movements …
Portrait of American Jews
The Last Half of the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1995
517 kr
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Has America been a place that has preserved and protected Jewish life? Is it a place in which a Jewish future is ensured? Samuel Heilman, long-time observer of American Jewish life, grapples with these questions from a sociologist’s perspective. He argues that the same conditions that have allowed …
Defenders of the Faith
Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
Häftad, 2000
428 kr
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In this first in-depth portrait of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel today, Samuel Heilman introduces a community that to many may seem to be the very embodiment of the Jewish past. To outsiders who stumble upon these neighborhoods and find bearded men in caftans, children with earlocks, and women in …
When a Jew Dies
The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son
Häftad, 2002
303 kr
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Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own father. This unique narrative crosses and recrosses …
Sliding to the Right
The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy
Häftad, 2006
616 kr
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Offering a snapshot of Orthodoxy Jewry in the United States, this book asks how the community has evolved in the years since World War II, and where it is headed. Incorporating everyday life, observations of cultural practices, descriptions of educational institutions, and more, it presents the …
Who Will Lead Us?
The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
Inbunden, 2017
262 kr
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Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are …
Who Will Lead Us?
The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
Häftad, 2019
219 kr
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Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are …
Following Similar Paths
What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another
Av Samuel C. Heilman, Mucahit Bilici
Inbunden, 2024
262 kr
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Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America. This book provides a braided portrait of two American groups whose strong religious attachments and powerful commitments to ritual observance are not always easy to adapt to …
Defenders of the Faith
Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
E-bok, 2000
503 kr
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In this first in-depth portrait of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel today, Samuel Heilman introduces a community that to many may seem to be the very embodiment of the Jewish past. To outsiders who stumble upon these neighborhoods and find bearded men in caftans, children with earlocks, and women in …
Who Will Lead Us?
The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
E-bok, 2017
353 kr
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Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are …
Following Similar Paths
What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another
Av Mucahit Bilici, Samuel C. Heilman
E-bok, 2024
420 kr
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Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America. This book provides a braided portrait of two American groups whose strong religious attachments and powerful commitments to ritual observance are not always easy to adapt to …
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning
Inbunden, 2005
2516 kr
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An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to redress wrongs in themselves or in the …
Synagogue Life
A Study in Symbolic Interaction
Häftad, 1998
765 kr
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Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He …
People of the Book
Drama, Fellowship and Religion
Häftad, 2001
795 kr
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Judaism has long derived its identity from its sacred books. The book or scroll - rather than the image or idol - has been emblematic of Jewish faith and tradition. The People of the Book presents a study of a group of Orthodox Jews, all of whom live in the modern world, engaged in the time-honored …
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning
Häftad, 2018
751 kr
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An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to redress wrongs in themselves or in the …
Synagogue Life
A Study in Symbolic Interaction
Inbunden, 2017
2516 kr
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Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He …
People of the Book
Drama, Fellowship and Religion
Inbunden, 2017
2516 kr
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Judaism has long derived its identity from its sacred books. The book or scroll - rather than the image or idol - has been emblematic of Jewish faith and tradition. The People of the Book presents a study of a group of Orthodox Jews, all of whom live in the modern world, engaged in the time-honored …
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning
E-bok, 2018
858 kr
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An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to redress wrongs in themselves or in the …
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning
E-bok, 2018
840 kr
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An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to redress wrongs in themselves or in the …
People of the Book
Drama, Fellowship and Religion
E-bok, 2017
935 kr
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Judaism has long derived its identity from its sacred books. The book or scroll--rather than the image or idol--has been emblematic of Jewish faith and tradition. The People of the Book presents a study of a group of Orthodox Jews, all of whom live in the modern world, engaged in the time-honored …
People of the Book
Drama, Fellowship and Religion
E-bok, 2017
935 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Judaism has long derived its identity from its sacred books. The book or scroll--rather than the image or idol--has been emblematic of Jewish faith and tradition. The People of the Book presents a study of a group of Orthodox Jews, all of whom live in the modern world, engaged in the time-honored …
Synagogue Life
A Study in Symbolic Interaction
E-bok, 2017
901 kr
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Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He …
Synagogue Life
A Study in Symbolic Interaction
E-bok, 2017
874 kr
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Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He …
