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Resultat
Vitenskapelig foredrag
2021

Motivations of Self-Converts: An Empirical Look at De-Essentialized Jewish Identities in Norway

Bidragsytere:
  • Tyson John Herberger

Presentasjon

Navn på arrangementet: Association for Jewish Studies 53rd Annual Conference
Sted: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dato fra: 19. desember 2021
Dato til: 21. januar 2022

Arrangør:

Arrangørnavn: Association for Jewish Studies

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig foredrag
Publiseringsår: 2021

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Teologi og religionsvitenskap • Religionsvitenskap, religionshistorie

Emneord

Identitet • Jewish Studies • Jødedommen • Jøder • Etnisk identitet • Flerreligiøsitet • Flerreligiøse samfunn • Religiøst mangfold

Beskrivelse Beskrivelse

Tittel

Motivations of Self-Converts: An Empirical Look at De-Essentialized Jewish Identities in Norway

Sammendrag

De-essentialized self-selected identities challenge how boundaries of Jewishness have traditionally been understood. Yet an increasing number of individuals (and at times even communities) are claiming Jewish or partially Jewish identities without undergoing formal conversions and without verified Jewish ancestry (whether matrilineal or patrilineal). Such self-proclaimed Jews present new realities as to how and potentially why people cross the boundary into Jewishness. This paper seeks to examine the self-understood motivations of individuals who have come to identify as Jewish without going through traditional procedures of conversion with a recognized beit din or a beit din’s confirmation of Jewishness by descent. While the phenomenon of self-claimed Jewish identities is a global one, this paper will be based upon empirical data gathered in interviews with and observations of such Jews in Norway as part of a wider project on unaffiliated Jewish identities there. It will primarily examine why these individuals have come to their Jewish identities according to their self-narratives and other information they convey. Secondary questions include how they view their Jewishness (or transition thereto) in terms of wider questions of pluralism and multiculturalism, how they understand Jews and Jewishness as being constructed around them, their role in these constructs, and their relations with the wider (and more normative) Jewish world. The paper will explore to what extent the research participants are motivated by a desire to become or embody the multicultural, by Christian theological concerns, by cleaving to a Jewishness not presented by the Jewish communities near them, by a desire to become the multicultural, by a sense of loss (or guilt or shame) over historic treatment of Jews in Norway during the Shoah or other factors which may lead towards some form of redemptive identification as Jews, and other considerations raised by the research participants.

Bidragsytere

Tyson Herberger

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Tyson John Herberger
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Fakultet for lærerutdanning og pedagogikk ved Høgskolen i Innlandet
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