Muslims, the New Age and Marginal Religions in Indonesia: Changing Meanings of Religious Pluralism

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia D. Howell
Keyword(s):  
Sociology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Kaplan ◽  
Rachel Werczberger

This article asks why middle-class Israeli seculars have recently begun to engage with Jewish religiosity. We use the case of the Jewish New Age (JNA) as an example of the middle class’s turn from a nationalised to a spiritualised version of Judaism. We show, by bringing together the sociology of religion’s interest in emerging spiritualities and cultural sociology’s interest in social class, how after Judaism was deemed socially significant in identity-based struggles for recognition, Israeli New Agers started culturalising and individualising Jewish religiosity by constructing it in a spiritual, eclectic, emotional and experiential manner. We thus propose that what may be seen as cultural and religious pluralism is, in fact, part of a broader system of class reproduction.


1968 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-103
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1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 1222-1222
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Canfield ◽  
Paula Kilmek
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