Transforming Identity: The Ritual Tranformation from Gentile to Jew -Structure and Meaning - Couverture souple

Sagi, Avi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826496725 ISBN 13 : 9780826496720

Editeur : Continuum, 2003

Synopsis

Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew once and for all and irrevocably. The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, according to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness as an a

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy, and Founder and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel. He has written and edited numerous books and articles in Jewish and general philosophy, among them Religion and Morality (with Daniel Statman, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: 1995) and the recently released Judaism: Between Religion and Morality (Tel Aviv: 1998) and Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>: 2002).</span></span>

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826496725
• ISBN 13: 9780826496720
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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