Decentering the Study of Jewish Identity: Opening the Dialogue With Other Religious Groups

Hartman, Harriet; Kaufman, Debra Renee

doi:10.1093/socrel/67.4.365

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“…Mitchell (2005) argued that religion provides authentic substance, not just the mapping out of identities, to the normalization of ethnic identity in Northern Ireland. At the same time, Hartman and Kaufman (2006) called for a “fluid” model of identity that emphasized the multifaceted and dynamic character of the binding between religious and ethnic identities in their research on Jewish immigrants in the United States.…”

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Ethnodoxy: How Popular Ideologies Fuse Religious and Ethnic Identities

Karpov

Lisovskaya

Barry

2012

Scientific Study of Religion

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Ethnodoxy: How Popular Ideologies Fuse Religious and Ethnic Identities

Karpov

Lisovskaya

Barry

2012

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…Indeed, the related concept of “symbolic religiosity,” which Gans (1994:585) defined as “a form of religiosity detached from religious affiliation and observance,” was initially conceived in reference to Jewish minorities in the United States, and has been fruitfully used to study both Jewish and Muslim communities (e.g., Diehl et al. 2009; Hartman and Kaufman 2006). Extending the concept of culturalized religion to religious minorities is crucial, as many of the manifestations of culturally religious identity highlighted in the literature (e.g., “cultural history,” “nostalgia,” “vicarious religion” [Davie 2015; Demerath 2000]) may also be found among minority individuals and groups.…”

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Culturalized Religion: A Synthetic Review and Agenda for Research

Astor

Mayrl²

2020

Scientific Study of Religion

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Scholars have taken a growing interest in what we call "culturalized religion"-that is, forms of religious identification, discourse, and expression that are primarily cultural in character, insofar as they are divorced from belief in religious dogma or participation in religious ritual. This article aims to clarify our current thinking about these phenomena so as to facilitate future theoretical and empirical work. Drawing on recent work in the sociology of culture, we distinguish between culturalized religion as a form of constituted culture, a form of pragmatic culture, and a form of identity; and theorize three principal types of relations connecting each of these modalities: reinforcing relationships, resource relationships, and destabilizing relationships. In so doing, we develop an inclusive and dynamic approach to studying culturalized religion that clears the ground for further research into its diverse modalities and manifestations, as well as their points of intersection and interaction.

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“…Two explanations are most prominent in accounting for secularity among American Jews. One is the mixture of ethnicity and religiosity in American Jewry (Cohen and Eisen 2000; Hartman and Kaufman 2006; Horowitz 2000; Kaufman 2005; Sharot 1997; Winter 1996, to name but a few). An individual may identify ethnically as a Jew without identifying with or practicing Judaism, the religion (Beit‐Hallahmi 2007; Sharot 1997).…”

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Jewish Identity and the Secular Achievements of American Jewish Men and Women

Hartman¹,

Hartman

2011

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

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Three questions are addressed concerning the relationship of Jewish identity to secular achievements. Are the secular achievements of American Jews related at all to the strength of their Jewish identity? Which has a stronger relationship to secular achievement, a religious or an ethnic Jewish identity? Do communal aspects or private, personal aspects of Jewish identity have the stronger relationship to secular achievements? Using the 2000-2001 National Jewish Population Survey, we find that educational attainment, labor force participation, and occupational achievements are related to several expressions of Jewish identity, even after controlling for the traditional sources of variation (age, gender, education, family status). Jewish identity, as expressed in terms of religion, ethnicity, communal commitment, and private attitudes and practices, is related to contemporary Jewish secular achievement, albeit differently for men and women.

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Decentering the Study of Jewish Identity: Opening the Dialogue With Other Religious Groups

Cited by 32 publications

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Ethnodoxy: How Popular Ideologies Fuse Religious and Ethnic Identities

Ethnodoxy: How Popular Ideologies Fuse Religious and Ethnic Identities

Culturalized Religion: A Synthetic Review and Agenda for Research

Jewish Identity and the Secular Achievements of American Jewish Men and Women

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