Becoming Jewish: New Jews and Emerging Jewish Communities in a Globalized World

✍ Scribed by Tudor Parfitt (Editor), Netanel Fisher (Editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 441
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites. In this volume, leading scholars of issues related to conversion, Judaising movements and Judaism as a New Religious Movement discuss and explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Of the Seed of Israel?
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
A European and Russian Perspective
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Israel: Joining the Jewish State
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
New Jews in the American Religious Free Market
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Contributors
Index