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Jews on the frontier : religion and mobility in nineteenth-century America /
'Jews on the Frontier' is a religious history of the United States that begins in an unexpected place: on the road with mobile Jews. It follows them out of eastern cities and into the American frontier, where they found unprecedented economic opportunity but also anonymity, loneliness, ins...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | North American religions.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Judaism, America, Mobility
- Part I. Movement and Belonging
- 1. Wandering Sons of Israel: Europe, America, and the Politics of Jewish Mobility
- 2. Reminding Myself That I Am a Jew: Voluntarism and Social Life
- Part II. The Lived Religion of American Jews
- 3. I Prefer Choice Myself: Family and the State
- 4. 'Tis in the Spirit Not in the Form: Material Culture and Popular Theology
- Part III. Creating an American Judaism
- 5. A Congregation of Strangers: The Mobile Infrastructure
- 6. The Empire of Our Religion: The Mobile Imaginary
- Conclusion: The Spirit of '77
- Notes
- Index