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Transmission and Trust: The Impact of Covid-19 on British Jewish and British Muslim Communities
Author(s): Hargreaves, Julian; Rushworth, Philip
Date: 2022
Topics: Coronavirus/Covid, Health, Comparisons with other communities, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: The Woolf Institute has collected nationally-representative survey data to study the impact of COVID-19 on British Jewish and British Muslim communities. Our survey asked questions concerning testing, symptoms, self-isolation and vaccination. Is the willingness to self-isolate and receive a vaccine higher or lower in Jewish and Muslim communities, and how do they compare to the general population? We asked questions about levels of trust in various sources of public health information: from family, friends and local religious leaders, to news and social media, to the NHS and local authorities. Are faith communities less likely to ignore official public health messaging and more likely to follow guidance from a local rabbi or imam? We heard media stories about ruling-breaking during the pandemic within both Jewish and Muslim communities. To what extent does statistical evidence support or challenge these accounts? Our survey included questions concerning adherence to Covid-19 rules and restrictions.
Pedagogies and Practice: How Religious Diversification Impacts Seminaries and Clergy
Author(s): Tiffany, Austin
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Rabbis, Interfaith Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Diversity
Abstract: This thesis considers how religious diversification has shaped the roles of clergy and seminaries. The focus of this qualitative, interview-based study is seminaries and clergy affiliated with various denominations of Judaism and Protestant Christianity in greater London and New York City. Religiously diversifying societies in the US and England have brought forth new challenges for clergy and seminaries, prompting new questions about how or why a faith community should or should not engage with diversity in the public square. This study investigates how seminaries and individual members of the clergy, as sources of religious authority, are responding to religious diversification in different ways – the former sluggish to recognise the impact of religious diversification in curriculum and pedagogical structures and the latter seeing it as a resource for social action initiatives, local networks, and political activism. This has created a gap between training and practice whereby clergy have assumed greater religious authority in religious life. Beyond contributing to the field of sociology of religion, this thesis concludes by allowing the experience of clergy in interreligious engagement to inform appropriate pedagogies that could be employed by seminaries.
Is There a Place for Yiddish in Poland's Jewish Revival?
Author(s): Adamczyk-Garbowska, Monika
Editor(s): Estraikh, Gennady; Krutikov, Mikhail
Date: 1999
Topics: Yiddish, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Revival, Post-1989
Yiddish in the Former Soviet Union since 1989: A Statistical-Demographic Analysis
Author(s): Tolts, Mark
Editor(s): Estraikh, Gennady; Krutikov, Mikhail
Date: 1999
Topics: Main Topic: Demography and Migration, Demography, Yiddish