Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Beyond the Synagogue Walls 265 personal choices about religious identity and observance that Jews now feel comfortable making. W ...

266 Lynn Davidman some preconceived notion that to be Jewish one must follow a recipe – one ounce of law, two tablespoons of tex ...

Beyond the Synagogue Walls 267 ethnic identification. For these unaffiliated Jews, the process of constructing a Jewish identity ...

268 Lynn Davidman part...the best part, and I almost missed it, but when Tevya sings that stuff about if I were a rich man, and ...

Beyond the Synagogue Walls 269 through institutionally defined religious activities, practices and, beliefs. Although they are n ...

270 Lynn Davidman religion, it isalsonot about race.^6 Several stated this position quite explicitly, while others referred to i ...

Beyond the Synagogue Walls 271 history, and memory. For example, many of my respondents described reading Jewish books, or leavi ...

272 Lynn Davidman As we have seen, my interviewees do not perceive traditional Jewish law as author- itative. They feel a great ...

Beyond the Synagogue Walls 273 that’s one of the things. There’s no belief in afterlife as I understand in Judaism. People who h ...

274 Lynn Davidman sociological question about whether these multiple ways of being Jewish can be under- stood to be “really” aut ...

Beyond the Synagogue Walls 275 understand the term; they are often less concrete. Nevertheless, the ways in which unaffiliated J ...

CHAPTER TWENTY Dis/Location Engaging Feminist Inquiry in the Sociology of Religion Mary Jo Neitz The impact of feminism and femi ...

Feminist Inquiry in the Sociology of Religion 277 journey, my own discoveries, my own engagement with questions raised by discou ...

278 Mary Jo Neitz cognitive backing, and emotional support for each individual’s evolving feminist identity. (1995: 27) This vie ...

Feminist Inquiry in the Sociology of Religion 279 and gave way to a secular order in the twentieth century. She states that “att ...

280 Mary Jo Neitz Gender as a Variable Conventional sociology takes on the interest in gender with least disruption to main- str ...

Feminist Inquiry in the Sociology of Religion 281 separate domain of women could be – and was – dismissed by the priest and vest ...

282 Mary Jo Neitz (1999) broadens the questions about relations between feminist and religious values by looking across these re ...

Feminist Inquiry in the Sociology of Religion 283 Latina Women Much of the work on Latina women also has focused on Catholic tra ...

284 Mary Jo Neitz Religion and the Body Movement toward thinking about religious practices instead of religious organizations, a ...