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anthropology
Author_Janet Jacobs
Author_Janet Liebman Jacobs
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christian converts
christianity
clandestine
contemporary jews
converted jews
crypto jews
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ethnic identity
ethnographers
european history
european jews
faith and religion
god and religion
historians
historical account
jewish ancestry
jewish descendants
jewish heritage
jewish history
jewish life
judaism
reclaimed past
religious history
religious identity
retrospective
scientific theory
social sciences
spanish inquisition
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520235175
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study of contemporary crypto-Jews--descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition--traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines historical and social scientific theory to fashion a brilliant analysis of hidden ancestry and the transformation of religious and ethnic identity.
Janet Liebman Jacobs is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Divine Disenchantment: Deconverting from New Religions (1989) and Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self (1994), and editor of Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis: Readings in Contemporary Theory (1997).
