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On Religious Change: the Situational Analysis of Symbolic Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Shlomo A. Deshen
Shlomo A. Deshen
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Tel-Aviv University
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In recent years I have been engaged in research in the social anthropology of religion. In the course of investigating the changing religious beliefs and practices of Jewish immigrants in Israel from rural Tunisia and Morocco I initially sought to conceptualize the phenomena encountered in terms of ‘secularization’. This study is a consequence of the problems that arose.

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Secularization
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1970 , pp. 260 - 274
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1970

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