Transnationalism and Hybridity in Religious Practices during the Migration Process
The Zera Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3416392 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ravit Talmi-Cohn (0000-0002-2492-0712, Ruppin Academic Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel14010034 |
| OpenAlex | W4313259649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article examines the complexity of religious practices and beliefs among a group of Zera Beta Israel (Falash Mura) members before, during, and a decade after their immigration process to Israel. This community, with roots in Judaism, converted to Christianity in the 19th century, complicating their request to immigrate to Israel along with Beta Israel members (Ethiopian Jews who had not converted to Christianity). Following an average 15-year wait in Ethiopian transit camps, they spent about two years in Israeli absorption centres and underwent conversion to rabbinic Judaism. This study aims to elucidate notions of religious, cultural, and oppositional transnationalism through life experiences described by Zera Beta Israel community members. Drawing on transnational theory and an interpretative qualitative approach, it develops and analyses 25 in-depth, semi-structured interviews and conversations conducted with members of the Zera Beta Israel community in Ethiopia and Israel. The findings challenge conventional binary perceptions and conceptual categories, such as Jewish-Christian or religious-secular and demonstrate the fluidity and complexity-the hybridity-that exists in the contexts of religion and immigration
Archaeology · Christianity · Ethnic group · Hybridity · Immigration · Judaism · Political science · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
Diaspora as practice between Ethiopia and Israel limited hybridity, entrepreneurship, and property ownership
The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe
The knowledge and practices of iron-smiting and its modes of transmission in Libo-Kamkam Woreda
Migration under double war
Migrants' Calibration of Social Ties Under Double War
I was always told to fit in, but never to excel
The Rhetoric of Immediacy
Constructing Ethnic Identities
Analyzing Narrative
Illuminating the Half-Life of Tradition
“Religion” and “Science” within a Global Religious History
Religion, Immigration, and the Role of Context
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
Religion Crossing Boundaries
Transnational Transcendence
Nations Unbound
Mexican New York
Before Religion
Young Belgian Muslims
Against ‘immigrant integration’
The failures of ‘immigrant integration’
Re-thinking the politics of migration. On the uses and challenges of regime perspectives for migration research
Religion, Tradition and the Popular
Research Beyond the Categories
The Copernican Turn in the Study of Religion
Immigrant Incorporation and Sociocultural Transnationalism
Religion, Migration and Identity
Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline
Whatever Happened to Simultaneity? Transnational Migration Theory and Dual Engagement in Sending and Receiving Countries
Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging
Unsatisfactory Saturation
Islam Moves West
Methodological nationalism and beyond
Signs Taken for Wonders
A plea for the 'de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration
Islamic gatherings
Time Making and Place Making
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |