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Abstract. There are many types of Jews, but is there any way to describe them collectively? How many of them are there? Where do they live? ‘Who are the Jews?’ considers Jewish identity by looking at how Jews have been portrayed and how they view themselves.
Sep 19, 2018 · By the time Durkheim elaborated on his definition of the term “religion,” the concept “religion” became highly abstract. The notion of religion was extended to connote an innate human disposition, and the term “sacred” started to be employed in order to describe the “essence” of religion ( Fujihara, 2005 ).
- Mitsutoshi Horii
- 2019
Oct 1, 2013 · This is an ancient question with no single, timeless answer. On the one hand, being Jewish is a matter of religion – the traditional, matrilineal definition of Jewish identity is founded on halakha (Jewish religious law). On the other hand, being Jewish also may be a matter of ancestry, ethnicity and cultural background.
Jewish identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a Jew and as relating to being Jewish. Under a broader definition, Jewish identity does not depend on whether a person is regarded as a Jew by others, or by an external set of religious, legal, or sociological norms.
May 26, 2023 · What are the most important questions in the sociology of religion? And how would scholars answer them? This article explores what people consider the most important questions in the field. Sociologists tend to study what we can readily answer with data, but the questions that elicit the most interest turn out to be quite different. They are bigger, broader, and harder to answer empirically. A ...
- Landon Schnabel
Charles S. Liebman. '; . Jews in the United States are generally classified as a religious group. Paradoxically, they make use of concepts borrowed from a variety of social science disciplines to study themselves; but not concepts peculiar to the study of religious groups.
Sep 2, 2009 · This article tackles the vexed question of defining religion by looking at a map of the landscape through which definers travel. It highlights the merits of a social-constructionist approach to the issue, maintaining that definitions cannot be isolated from the position of the definer in global society, or from the religion and science and the ...
