Marta F Topel, Miriam Adelman

The Sacred and the Impure in Judaism

Law, Food, and Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Sacred and the Impure in Judaism examines the radicalization of certain Orthodox Jewish groups through the lens of kashrut, or Jewish dietary laws.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197677667
• ISBN-10: 0197677665
• Artikelnr.: 69729676

Autorenporträt

Marta F. Topel is an anthropologist and the head of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP). She has been a Visiting Researcher in the Liwerant Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC). Miriam Adelman holds advanced degrees in Sociology (MPhil, New York University, 1991) and Human Sciences (PhD, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2004). She was a professor and researcher in Sociology at the Federal University of Paraná for 27 years. She currently works as a freelance translator of academic texts (Spanish, Portuguese, and French to English) and has published poetry of her own, as well as translations of contemporary Brazilian and North American poets.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Orthodox Judaism.
* Chapter 2: From the Jewish tradition to anthropological tradition:
Kashrut in our times
* Chapter 3: Tradition, experts and certifying agencies: Progress and
setbacks in kashrut today
* Chapter 4: Ritual density or obsession? Pointillism in kashrut
* Chapter 5: Insects, mammals and birds: Kashrut's tortuous path
* Chapter 6: Some answers, some findings and some questions: Kashrut
as stage for and mirror of tensions in Jewish Orthodoxy
* Glossary
* Bibliography