Shas and the resignification of the intersection between ethnicity and religion.
Current analyses of ethnicity and religion emphasise the subordination of the one to the other in the construction of collective identities. One line of research perceives religion as a resource of political mobilisation, while another conceptualises religion as the essence of ethnicity. As opposed...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 43; no. 9; pp. 1617 - 1635 |
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