Brazilian but Jewish: Religious Conversion and Mismatched Identities
Throughout Brazil, a growing number of former Christians have been turning to Judaism in recent years. As many are not accepted as Jewish by Jewish institutions in the country, they have begun to form communities of their own in various urban centers. This paper explores the socio-religious identifi...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
[2019]
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International journal of Latin American religions
Año: 2019, Volumen: 3, Número: 1, Páginas: 25-39 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Brasil
/ Cristiano
/ Conversión (Religión)
/ Judaísmo
/ Identidad religiosa
/ Consciencia nacional Motivo)
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | BH Judaísmo KBR América Latina |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Brazil
B Judaism B Identification B Conversion B semiotic ideologies |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Sumario: | Throughout Brazil, a growing number of former Christians have been turning to Judaism in recent years. As many are not accepted as Jewish by Jewish institutions in the country, they have begun to form communities of their own in various urban centers. This paper explores the socio-religious identification practices of one such emergent community, located in Brasília, the nation's capital. It argues that in the Brazilian context, an understanding of religious identification requires a consideration of nationalist ideologies. It takes up Robbins's (2004) theoretical account of conversion as a syncretic process to propose that members of the community in Brasília continually reconcile their Jewishness with their Brazilianness. For Brazilian hopeful converts to Judaism, Jewishness and Brazilianness often are perceived to be mutually incompatible; claiming both at the same time is ideologically problematic. To manage this sense of dissonance, Brazilians who wish to become Jewish engage in a continuous semiotic negotiation between the two forms of identification. |
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| ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-019-00075-1 |