Gender, Families and Transmission in the Contemporary Jewish Context.
Bringing together social science researchers from France, Israel, the United States, Belgium and Switzerland, this book analyses contemporary Jewishness within the constant dialectic between faithfulness to Jewish tradition and culture and adherence to the values of modernity and democracy. Systems...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Bringing together social science researchers from France, Israel, the United States, Belgium and Switzerland, this book analyses contemporary Jewishness within the constant dialectic between faithfulness to Jewish tradition and culture and adherence to the values of modernity and democracy. Systems of family and gender normativity have durably influenced the traditional Jewish universe, but the norms and the institutions that embody them are today shaky. Individualization - the essence of modernity - is at work in the Jewish world, as it is elsewhere, and new identities are emerging and questi. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781443892322 1443892327 |