Jewish Identity, Values, and Religion in a Globalized World: A Study of Late Adolescents
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Abstract
Multiple identities are becoming an increasingly important issue in a globalized world. This study examines the interference of Jewish identity with other collective identities, national and transnational, as well as the influence of religion and values on Jewish and other collective identities in Jewish late adolescents in Belgium. We compared data with those of a previous study on native Belgians and Muslim immigrants (Saroglou & Galand, 2004) and found similarities between Jews and the other two groups in the hierarchies of collective identities and values; however, Jews differed in their weak European identity and the considerable importance to them of autonomy and self-enhancement values (power and achievement). Jewish cultural identity was unrelated to other collective identities, but a shift from a Jewish identity to a new, Belgian identity or to a broad, transnational identity (or both) was occasionally related to low levels of attachment to religion, tradition, power, security, and hedonism and to high levels of universalism, autonomy, and conformity.
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Main Topic: Identity and Community Jewish Identity Comparisons with other communities National Identity Teenagers Youth
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6(3)
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231-249
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Link to article (paywalled), Jewish Identity, Values, and Religion in a Globalized World: A Study of Late Adolescents
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Jewish Identity, Values, and Religion in a Globalized World: A Study of Late Adolescents. 2006: 231-249. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1207/s1532706xid0603_2
