Stephen Sharot
Biographic Data
| ID | 3647239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Sharot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharot |
| SIGNATURE | SHAROT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion
A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced by, the wider socio-political environment. After introducing the book's major themes, the volume introduces and builds upon an analysis of Webe…
Hollywood is a Woman's Town’: Masculinity and the Leading Man in American Fan Magazines of the 1930s
In their address to a predominantly female readership, fan magazines of the 1930s asserted that Hollywood was one place in which women were not subordinated to men as female stardom was superior to that of male stardom. The magazines’ representations of male actors were both compliant with, and resistant to, the tough‐guy image of hegemonic masculinity. The personas of most ‘leading men’ who led the supporting casts of female stars were represent…
Transnational cinema and cultural adaptation in early 1930s Europe: The four language versions of ‘The Private Secretary’
A comparison of the German film Die Privatsekretärin/The Private Secretary (Wilhelm Thiele, 1931) and its three other-language versions (French, Italian, British) provides a case study for a topic that has been little examined: the relationship between transnational cultural adaptation and the purported national identity and ‘nationalizing’ of films in the early sound period. The level and scope of these adaptations varied from retaining and modi…
Judaism
Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel
Social class in female star personas and the cross-class romance formula in Depression-era America
Female stars of the 1930s differed in the number of cross-class romance films in which they appeared, the frequency in which they played the poor or the wealthy side of the romantic couple, and the relationship of the cross-class formula and the stars’ roles within them to their star personas. Social class was one component in stars’ personas and its importance varied among stars, as did the particular class, upper or lower, with which they were …
Landmark in Israel: Recruitment and Maintenance of Clients in a Human Potential Organization
Studies examining factors in religious conversion have focused on religious movements that are stigmatized or regarded as deviant and that stress communal lifestyles and exclusive commitment. The relevance of these factors is examined in the processes of recruitment and retention of clients in Landmark, a human potential organization that is world-accepting and non-communal. Affective bonds in social networks were found to be of crucial importanc…
Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities
Class Rise as a Reward for Disinterested Love: Cross‐Class Romance Films, 1915–28
The 'New Woman', star personas, and cross-class romance films in 1920s America
The popular cross-class romance films of the 1920s were influenced by two socio-cultural developments: the ‘New Woman’, particularly in the form of the flapper, and the diffusion of the norms of disinterested love within the context of consumerism. The personas of the three female stars discussed here – Mary Pickford, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow – represented variations of the ‘New Woman’. Mary Pickford combined rebellion against, and continuity …
Judaism in Israel: Public Religion, Neo-Traditionalism, Messianism, and Ethno-Religious Conflict
The Kaifeng Jews: A Reconsideration of Acculturation and Assimilation in a Comparative Perspective
The permeable boundaries of the major components of Chinese religion (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism) and the relatively tolerant pluralism of the religious milieu are important factors in accounting for the religious acculturation of the Jewish community in the Chinese city of Kaifeng. A comparison of the acculturation of Chinese Jews with that of Muslims in Imperial China shows that, though the small size of the Jewish community and its lack of…
A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosos, Priests, and Popular Religion
A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced by, the wider socio-political environment. After introducing the book's major themes, the volume introduces and builds upon an analysis of Webe…
Crossing the Gods: World Religions and Worldly Politics
Crossing the Gods examines the sometimes antagonistic, sometimes cozy relationship between religion and politics in countries around the globe. Eminent sociologist of religion Jay Demerath traveled to Brazil, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, and Thailand to explore the history and current relationship of religion, politics, and the state in each country. In the first par…
Sociology of Religion: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosos, Priests, and Popular Religion
A Comparative Sociology of World Religions
Journal Article A Comparative Sociology of World Religions, Stephen Sharot. New York: New York University Press, 2001, 344 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $18.50 (paper) Get access Phil Zuckerman Phil Zuckerman Pitzer College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 3, Fall 2002, Pages 399–401, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712483 Published: 01 October 2002
Beyond Christianity: A Critique of the Rational Choice Theory of Religion from a Weberian and Comparative Religions Perspective
The rational choice theorists of religion have attempted to build up a body of transcultural, universalistic generalizations, beginning with basic axioms of human rationality. The problematics of the perspective's analytical focus on one type of rationality are made evident by a comparison with Max Weber's types of action. The influence of the American religious experience is evident in the perspective's formulations and explanations, and concept…
Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion
A critical commentary on gans’ “symbolic ethnicity and symbolic religiosity” and other formulations of ethnicity and religion regarding American Jews
Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz. Aryei Fishman
Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society
The Response of Israeli Society to New Religious Movements: ISKCON and Teshuvah
Nurit Zaidman-Dvir, Stephen Sharot, The Response of Israeli Society to New Religious Movements: ISKCON and Teshuvah, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 279-295
Beyond Christianity: A Critique of the Rational Choice Theory of Religion from a Weberian and Comparative Religions Perspective
The rational choice theorists of religion have attempted to build up a body of transcultural, universalistic generalizations, beginning with basic axioms of human rationality. The problematics of the perspective's analytical focus on one type of rationality are made evident by a comparison with Max Weber's types of action. The influence of the American religious experience is evident in the perspective's formulations and explanations, and concept…
Judaism and the Secularization Debate
Journal Article Judaism and the Secularization Debate Get access Stephen Sharot Stephen Sharot Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Pages 255–275, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711361 Published: 01 October 1991
A critical commentary on gans’ “symbolic ethnicity and symbolic religiosity” and other formulations of ethnicity and religion regarding American Jews
Variations in ethnic identification among Israeli Jews
Hasidism and the Routinization of Charisma
The spread of Hasidism in the Jewish communities of eastern Europe in the last decades of the eighteenth and first decades of the nineteenth century is related to the routinization of charisma in the form of the dynasties of the zaddikim, the leaders of the movement. The coexistence of two principles of charismatic succession, together with multiple succession, resulted in features which contributed to the success of the movement: the continual f…
The Response of Israeli Society to New Religious Movements: ISKCON and Teshuvah
Nurit Zaidman-Dvir, Stephen Sharot, The Response of Israeli Society to New Religious Movements: ISKCON and Teshuvah, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 279-295
The Costs and Benefits of Ethnic Identification
Minority Situation and Religious Acculturation: A Comparative Analysis of Jewish Communities
The need for comparative studies of Jewish communities has occasionally been argued, but apart from largely typological comparisons of Jewish polities, there have been few, if any, attempts at a sociological comparative study of Jewish communities. Nearly all the sociological studies of Judaism have restricted their analysis to the Jewish community in the United States, and it is possible that their findings possess little generality beyond that …
The Three-Generations Thesis and the American Jews
Israel: Sociological Analyses of Religion in the Jewish State
The sociology of religion does not have a high profile in Israeli sociology, but the historical circumstances of the Israeli state provide a challenging opportunity for studying the convergence between the religion of a diaspora people and a modern nationalist movement. The picture is complicated by the fact that Judaism is not a state church or a formal state religion and that Israelis display widely differing patterns of religiosity. But resear…
Class Consciousness in Israel
Ethnicity, Class and Friendship: The Case of Israel
Debates over the forms and levels of ethnic pluralism and the relationship between class and ethnicity in the Israeli Jewish population provide the background of an analysis of friendship networks of four groups of origin, two from the Middle East and two from Europe. It is shown that, whereas only small minorities have homogeneous networks based on country of origin, the broad ethnic division between 'Middle Easterners' and 'Europeans', and the …
Hollywood is a Woman's Town’: Masculinity and the Leading Man in American Fan Magazines of the 1930s
In their address to a predominantly female readership, fan magazines of the 1930s asserted that Hollywood was one place in which women were not subordinated to men as female stardom was superior to that of male stardom. The magazines’ representations of male actors were both compliant with, and resistant to, the tough‐guy image of hegemonic masculinity. The personas of most ‘leading men’ who led the supporting casts of female stars were represent…
Class Rise as a Reward for Disinterested Love: Cross‐Class Romance Films, 1915–28
The Kaifeng Jews: A Reconsideration of Acculturation and Assimilation in a Comparative Perspective
The permeable boundaries of the major components of Chinese religion (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism) and the relatively tolerant pluralism of the religious milieu are important factors in accounting for the religious acculturation of the Jewish community in the Chinese city of Kaifeng. A comparison of the acculturation of Chinese Jews with that of Muslims in Imperial China shows that, though the small size of the Jewish community and its lack of…
Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society
The sacredness of sin; antinomianism and models of man
The Three-Generations Thesis and the American Jews
Minority Situation and Religious Acculturation: A Comparative Analysis of Jewish Communities
The need for comparative studies of Jewish communities has occasionally been argued, but apart from largely typological comparisons of Jewish polities, there have been few, if any, attempts at a sociological comparative study of Jewish communities. Nearly all the sociological studies of Judaism have restricted their analysis to the Jewish community in the United States, and it is possible that their findings possess little generality beyond that …
Instrumental and Expressive Elites in a Religious Organization. The United Synagogue in London / Elites expressives et instrumentales dans une organisation religieuse: La Synagogue Unie à Londres
Sharot Stephen. Instrumental and Expressive Elites in a Religious Organization. The United Synagogue in London / Elites expressives et instrumentales dans une organisation religieuse : la Synagogue Unie à Londres. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°43/1, 1977. pp. 141-155
Judaism: A Sociology
Judaism: A Sociology
Journal Article Judaism: A Sociology by Stephen Sharot. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1976, 224 pp. $15.00 Get access Mervin F. Verbit Mervin F. Verbit Brooklyn College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 39, Issue 4, Winter 1978, Pages 370–372, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709986 Published: 01 December 1978
Hasidism and the Routinization of Charisma
The spread of Hasidism in the Jewish communities of eastern Europe in the last decades of the eighteenth and first decades of the nineteenth century is related to the routinization of charisma in the form of the dynasties of the zaddikim, the leaders of the movement. The coexistence of two principles of charismatic succession, together with multiple succession, resulted in features which contributed to the success of the movement: the continual f…
Jewish Millenarianism: A Comparison of Medieval Communities
Sociologists and anthropologists who have studied millennial movements in a comparative perspective have almost completely ignored the movements among Jews in the Diaspora. Historians have studied particular Jewish messianic outbursts and have also provided general surveys of Jewish millennial expectations and 'false' messiahs, but none have offered a systematic analysis of possible social causes and few have made any comparison with non-Jewish m…
Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements
The sacredness of sin; antinomianism and models of man
Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements
Journal Article Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements, by Stephen Sharot. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982, x + 306 pp. $25.00 Get access J. Alan Winter J. Alan Winter Connecticut College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 4, Winter 1983, Pages 355–356, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711615 Published: …
Messianism, Mysticism and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements
Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements
In this first sociological analysis of millenarian and mystical movements from the Middle Ages to the present, Sharot deals primarily with the Jewish masses. He describes religious currents in which hope focused on either a messiah who would bring redemption or on the means by which the individual could achieve mystical cleaving to God. Also discussed are Sabbatianism, Hasidism, Reform Judiasm, revolutionary socialism, Zionism, and the relationsh…
Variations in ethnic identification among Israeli Jews
Civil Religion in Israel: Traditional Judaism and Political Culture in the Jewish State
Journal Article Civil Religion in Israel: Traditional Judaism and Political Culture in the Jewish State , by Charles S. Liebman and Eliezer Don-Yehiya. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. x + 305 pp. $24.95 Get access Stephen Sharot Stephen Sharot Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 2, Summer 1985, Pages 188–190, https://doi…
The Costs and Benefits of Ethnic Identification
Class consciousness in Israel
This study investigates dimensions of class consciousness (cognitive, affective, evaluative) in Israel and analyses their relationships to alternative and overlapping objectively conceived class classifications. Variance in a number of interrelated cognitive dimensions was found to be mainly associated with class classifications that focus on work-occupational situations, but none of the affective/evaluative dimensions were found to have a unifor…
Class Consciousness in Israel
Ethnicity, Class and Friendship: The Case of Israel
Debates over the forms and levels of ethnic pluralism and the relationship between class and ethnicity in the Israeli Jewish population provide the background of an analysis of friendship networks of four groups of origin, two from the Middle East and two from Europe. It is shown that, whereas only small minorities have homogeneous networks based on country of origin, the broad ethnic division between 'Middle Easterners' and 'Europeans', and the …
Israel: Sociological Analyses of Religion in the Jewish State
The sociology of religion does not have a high profile in Israeli sociology, but the historical circumstances of the Israeli state provide a challenging opportunity for studying the convergence between the religion of a diaspora people and a modern nationalist movement. The picture is complicated by the fact that Judaism is not a state church or a formal state religion and that Israelis display widely differing patterns of religiosity. But resear…
Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society
This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of origin (from Europe, North Africa and Asia), although there is also a chapter on Palestinian Arabs in Israel. This work takes the analysis of ethnic identities and relations much further than previous…
Judaism and the Secularization Debate
Journal Article Judaism and the Secularization Debate Get access Stephen Sharot Stephen Sharot Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Pages 255–275, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711361 Published: 01 October 1991
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society
The Response of Israeli Society to New Religious Movements: ISKCON and Teshuvah
Nurit Zaidman-Dvir, Stephen Sharot, The Response of Israeli Society to New Religious Movements: ISKCON and Teshuvah, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 279-295
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society
Journal Article Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society, by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Stephen Sharot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 287 pp. $39.50 Get access Eugen Schoenfeld Eugen Schoenfeld Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 2, Summer 1992, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711133 Published: 01 July 1992
Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society
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