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Before Rosebud was a sled
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The fate of "culture" : Geertz and beyond
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ISBN: 0520216016 0520216008 Year: 1999 Volume: 8 Publisher: Berkeley (CA) : University of California Press,

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Visual Arts Showcase & European Arts Network Research Conference. A Selection of work from recent exhibitions by artists associated with The Artists' Project and the Projects' European Partners
Year: 1999 Publisher: Cardiff Wales Arts International


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Insecure prosperity : small-town Jews in industrial America, 1890-1940
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ISBN: 0691228302 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants did settle in major cities, another fifth created small-town communities like the one described here by Ewa Morawska. Rather than climbing up the mainstream education and occupational success ladder, the Jewish Johnstowners created in the local economy a tightly knit ethnic entrepreneurial niche and pursued within it their main life goals: achieving a satisfactory standard of living against the recurrent slumps in local mills and coal mines and enjoying the company of their fellow congregants. Rather than secularizing and diversifying their communal life, as did Jewish immigrants to larger cities, they devoted their energies to creating and maintaining an inclusive, multipurpose religious congregation. Morawska begins with an extensive examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came, tracing features of culture and social relations that they brought with them to America. After detailing the process by which migration from Eastern Europe occurred, Morawska takes up the social organization of Johnstown, the place of Jews in that social order, the transformation of Jewish social life in the city, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. The resulting work will appeal simultaneously to students of American history, of American social life, of immigration, and of Jewish experience, as well as to the general reader interested in any of these topics.

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Jews --- History. --- Pennsylvania --- Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Affair. --- American Jews. --- American middle class. --- Americans. --- Autobiography. --- B'nai B'rith. --- Bankruptcy. --- Boutique. --- Career. --- Clifford Geertz. --- Coal town. --- Collective memory. --- Customer. --- Debt. --- Department store. --- E. P. Thompson. --- Eastern Europe. --- Economy. --- Emigration. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Ethnic group. --- Ethnic studies. --- Ethnoreligious group. --- Everyday life. --- Extended family. --- Family economy. --- Habitus (sociology). --- Haskalah. --- Historical sociology. --- Historiography. --- Household. --- Housewife. --- Hungarians. --- Ideology. --- Illustration. --- Immigration to the United States. --- Immigration. --- Income. --- Informant. --- Institution. --- Interwar period. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish name. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Kashrut. --- Laborer. --- Layoff. --- Literature. --- Lithuania. --- Livelihood. --- Lower East Side. --- Middle class. --- Minority group. --- Moses Rischin. --- Newspaper. --- Oral history. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Payment. --- Peasant. --- Politics. --- Postmodernism. --- Profession. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religion. --- Residence. --- Retail. --- Salary. --- Secondary education. --- Secularization. --- Shopkeeper. --- Shtetl. --- Slavs. --- Small business. --- Social center. --- Social environment. --- Social history. --- Social relation. --- Society of the United States. --- Society. --- Sociology. --- Standard of living. --- Sunday school. --- Superiority (short story). --- Synagogue. --- Tailor. --- Talmud Torah. --- Tkhine. --- United Jewish Appeal. --- Western Pennsylvania. --- Wholesaling. --- Workforce. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- Writing. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism.

Nation and Religion : Perspectives on Europe and Asia
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ISBN: 0691012334 0691012326 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the rise of nationalism, the dominance of capitalism, and the emergence of powerful state institutions--favors secularism and relegates religion to the purely private realm. This collection of essays on nationalism and religion in Europe and Asia challenges that view. Contributors show that religion and politics are mixed together in complex and vitally important ways not just in the East, but in the West as well. The book focuses on four societies: India, Japan, Britain, and the Netherlands. It shows that religion and nationalism in these societies combined to produce such notions as the nation being chosen for a historical task (imperialism, for example), the possibility of national revival, and political leadership as a form of salvation. The volume also examines the qualities of religious discourse and practice that can be used for nationalist purposes, paying special attention to how religion can help to give meaning to sacrifice in national struggle. The book's comparative approach underscores that developments in colonizing and colonized countries, too often considered separately, are subtly interrelated. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Benedict R. Anderson, Talal Asad, Susan Bayly, Partha Chatterjee, Frans Groot, Harry Harootunian, Hugh McLeod, Barbara Metcalf, and Peter van Rooden.

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Religion and state --- Nationalism --- Religion et Etat --- Nationalisme --- Comparative studies --- Religious aspects --- Etudes comparatives --- Aspect religieux --- 322 <4> --- 322 <5> --- 322 --- 322 Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek --- Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek --- 322 <4> Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--Europa --- Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--Europa --- State and religion --- State, The --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--Azië --- Akihito, Emperor. --- Arnold, Thomas. --- Bengal: culture. --- Brahmans. --- Bunyan, John. --- Casanova, José. --- Christianity. --- Colley, Linda. --- Das, Chittaranjan. --- Disraeli, Benjamin. --- Foucault, Michel. --- Geertz, Clifford. --- Gladstone, William. --- Grant, Charles. --- Habermas, Jürgen. --- Hashim, Abdul. --- Ireland: Catholics. --- Islam. --- Jinnah, Muhammad Ali. --- Kaul, Shiv Kishan. --- Maududi, Maulana. --- Mauss, Marcel. --- Napoleon Bonaparte. --- Omura Masajiro. --- Rammohan Roy. --- Shinto. --- Sikhs. --- Tilak, Pal Gangadhar. --- Weber, Max. --- ethnology. --- fundamentalism. --- political parties. --- religion. --- Nacionalisme. --- Religió i Estat. --- Religió i Estat --- Nacionalisme --- Estudis comparatius. --- Aspectes religiosos --- Àsia. --- Europa. --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Estat i religió --- Religió civil --- Religió i política --- Pensament polític --- Autodeterminació nacional --- Catalanisme --- Espanyolisme --- Identitat nacional --- Independentisme --- Moviments nativistes --- Nació --- Nacionalisme àrab --- Nacionalisme en la música --- Nacionalistes --- Principi de nacionalitat --- Regionalisme --- Valencianisme --- Xovinisme --- Estats i territoris --- Euràsia --- Alps --- Camí de Sant Jaume --- Corredor Mediterrani --- Danubi (Europa : Curs d'aigua) --- Europa central --- Europa de l'Est --- Europa del Nord --- Europa del Sud --- Europa occidental --- Països de la Unió Europea --- Rin (Europa : Curs d'aigua) --- Roine (Europa : Curs d'aigua) --- Tràcia (Regió històrica) --- Àsia central --- Eufrates (Àsia : Curs d'aigua) --- Eufrates (Àsia : Vall) --- Himàlaia (Àsia : Serralada) --- Jònia (Turquia i Grècia) --- Orient --- Tigris (Àsia : Curs d'aigua)

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