Turbulent Times - The British Jewish Community Today

Zusatztext A book well worth reading! Informationen zum Autor Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris is an independent scholar, an associate lecturer at the Open University, an associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College and a founder of the Centre for New Jewish Thought. His website is www.kahn-harris.org. Keith Kahn-Harris is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and the convenor of New Jewish Thought (www.newjewishthought.org). His website is www.kahn-harris.org Ben Gidley is Senior Researcher at the COMPAS Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford University. Vorwort Compelling discussion of transformations within British Jewry in recent times. Zusammenfassung Argues that there has been a shift within Jewish communal discourse from a strategy of security, which emphasized Anglo-Jewry's secure British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the dangers and threats Jews face individually and communally. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Jewish Community, Jewish Leadership 2. Insecurity and the Problem of Jewish Continuity 3. Conceptualizing Jewish Continuity 4. Practising Jewish Continuity 5. Re-imagining Anti-Semitism 6. Combating the New Anti-Semitism  Conclusion: Towards a Dialogic Jewish Community  Bibliography  Index

Product details

• Authors: Ben Gidley, Keith Kahn-Harris, B Keith Kahn-Harris
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.2010
• EAN: 9781847063168
• ISBN: 978-1-84706-316-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Judaism, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities