K Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 187618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albright College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2786-3909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Asian American Jews, Race, and Religious Identity
This article is an exploration of marriages between white American Jews and non-Christian or Jewish Asian Americans in order to illustrate how Christian roots and biases inherent in the term religion delineate these families’ boundaries around family practice such that such Jewish-Asian American families produce a broader range of cultural mixture than their Jewish-Christian counterparts. It argues that this blending occurs because of the differe…
Christmas in the Room: Gender, Conflict, and Compromise in Multi-Religious Domestic Space
Interfaith relationships offer particular potential for creating religious coexistence; they also play out very differently in domestic space than in public and civic spaces, with the result that interfaith marriage becomes an important, yet unique, site of religious cooperation, co-existence, and conflict. The article argues that examinations of interfaith families must take three factors into account, each of which involves careful attention to…
Warfare in an evolutionary perspective
The importance of warfare for human evolution is hotly debated in anthropology. Some authors hypothesize that warfare emerged at least 200,000–100,000 years BP, was frequent, and significantly shaped human social evolution. Other authors claim that warfare is a recent phenomenon, linked to the emergence of agriculture, and mostly explained by cultural rather than evolutionary forces. Here I highlight and critically evaluate six controversial poin…
Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America
"Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America." Material Religion, 15(3), pp. 387–388
Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States
The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation’s religious life? Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in int…
Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics. By R. Marie Griffith
Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics is the first major study to track the intimate relationship between sexuality, American politics, and the history of Christianity across the better part of the twentieth century. Griffith’s masterful account has a broad sweep, centered on the question of how Christian moral assumptions shape American laws and politics and how those assumptions have been specifically…
Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage
"walking where jesus walked: american christians and holy land pilgrimage." Material Religion, 12(3), pp. 393–394
Chrismukkah: Millennial Multiculturalism
Chrismukkah and its increased public presence marked a shift in the public discourse around Christian-Jewish interfaith families in the United States in the years surrounding the turn of the millennium. In children's literature, greeting cards, humor books, on television and in blogs, interfaith families who practiced elements of both Christianity and Judaism constructed a multicultural identity by the strategic reframing of practices from both b…
We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom, by Tisa Wenger
accessible writer, and it is frustrating to repeatedly encounter what feel like unnecessary rationalizations in the midst of his prose.The relationship between dreams, neuroscience, and human evolution is fascinatingly complex, and not at all incidental to the centrality of dreaming in religious experience, but Bulkeley often substitutes gloss for depth by foregrounding the mind/brain features of dreaming at the expense of exploring the interplay…
Differential Fertility in Central India
Population Redistribution and Business Structure and Relocation Patterns: Rhode Island 1929-1958
Population Redistribution and Business Structure and Location Patterns. Rhode Island, 1929-1958
The Correlates of Urbanization
Two papers, Urbanization and Natural Resources: A Study in Organizational Ecology (Review, June, 1958) and Urbanization, Technology, and the Division of Labor: International Patterns (Review, October, 1962) by Jack P. Gibbs and Walter T. Martin contain serious errors. These errors nullify their hypotheses and arguments. In the October, 1962 article, Gibbs and Martin present measures of industrial diversification,'1 technological development, and …
Differential Fertility in Central India
Chrismukkah: Millennial Multiculturalism
Chrismukkah and its increased public presence marked a shift in the public discourse around Christian-Jewish interfaith families in the United States in the years surrounding the turn of the millennium. In children's literature, greeting cards, humor books, on television and in blogs, interfaith families who practiced elements of both Christianity and Judaism constructed a multicultural identity by the strategic reframing of practices from both b…
The Correlates of Urbanization
Two papers, Urbanization and Natural Resources: A Study in Organizational Ecology (Review, June, 1958) and Urbanization, Technology, and the Division of Labor: International Patterns (Review, October, 1962) by Jack P. Gibbs and Walter T. Martin contain serious errors. These errors nullify their hypotheses and arguments. In the October, 1962 article, Gibbs and Martin present measures of industrial diversification,'1 technological development, and …
The Correlates of Urbanization
Two papers, Urbanization and Natural Resources: A Study in Organizational Ecology (Review, June, 1958) and Urbanization, Technology, and the Division of Labor: International Patterns (Review, October, 1962) by Jack P. Gibbs and Walter T. Martin contain serious errors. These errors nullify their hypotheses and arguments. In the October, 1962 article, Gibbs and Martin present measures of industrial diversification,'1 technological development, and …
Differential Fertility in Central India
Population Redistribution and Business Structure and Relocation Patterns: Rhode Island 1929-1958
Population Redistribution and Business Structure and Location Patterns. Rhode Island, 1929-1958
We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom, by Tisa Wenger
accessible writer, and it is frustrating to repeatedly encounter what feel like unnecessary rationalizations in the midst of his prose.The relationship between dreams, neuroscience, and human evolution is fascinatingly complex, and not at all incidental to the centrality of dreaming in religious experience, but Bulkeley often substitutes gloss for depth by foregrounding the mind/brain features of dreaming at the expense of exploring the interplay…
Chrismukkah: Millennial Multiculturalism
Chrismukkah and its increased public presence marked a shift in the public discourse around Christian-Jewish interfaith families in the United States in the years surrounding the turn of the millennium. In children's literature, greeting cards, humor books, on television and in blogs, interfaith families who practiced elements of both Christianity and Judaism constructed a multicultural identity by the strategic reframing of practices from both b…
Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage
"walking where jesus walked: american christians and holy land pilgrimage." Material Religion, 12(3), pp. 393–394
Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States
The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation’s religious life? Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in int…
Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics. By R. Marie Griffith
Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics is the first major study to track the intimate relationship between sexuality, American politics, and the history of Christianity across the better part of the twentieth century. Griffith’s masterful account has a broad sweep, centered on the question of how Christian moral assumptions shape American laws and politics and how those assumptions have been specifically…
Warfare in an evolutionary perspective
The importance of warfare for human evolution is hotly debated in anthropology. Some authors hypothesize that warfare emerged at least 200,000–100,000 years BP, was frequent, and significantly shaped human social evolution. Other authors claim that warfare is a recent phenomenon, linked to the emergence of agriculture, and mostly explained by cultural rather than evolutionary forces. Here I highlight and critically evaluate six controversial poin…
Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America
"Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America." Material Religion, 15(3), pp. 387–388
Christmas in the Room: Gender, Conflict, and Compromise in Multi-Religious Domestic Space
Interfaith relationships offer particular potential for creating religious coexistence; they also play out very differently in domestic space than in public and civic spaces, with the result that interfaith marriage becomes an important, yet unique, site of religious cooperation, co-existence, and conflict. The article argues that examinations of interfaith families must take three factors into account, each of which involves careful attention to…
Asian American Jews, Race, and Religious Identity
This article is an exploration of marriages between white American Jews and non-Christian or Jewish Asian Americans in order to illustrate how Christian roots and biases inherent in the term religion delineate these families’ boundaries around family practice such that such Jewish-Asian American families produce a broader range of cultural mixture than their Jewish-Christian counterparts. It argues that this blending occurs because of the differe…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works)