NDLI: Narrating Jewish Identity: A Response to Bruce Phillips

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Kaufman, Debra Renee
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	In this response to Bruce Phillips on the delivery of his Sklare lecture, I revisit the relationship between qualitative and quantitative research arguing that qualitative work provides important responses, meanings and challenges to issues raised by social demographers. Such responses have the potential to move us, as in the case of the erosion/survival debates, beyond concerns about growth to a new level of conversation about the meaning and measure of Jewish continuity and its related research corollaries: secularity, ethnicity, authenticity and religiosity. Since all social science research is limited by the kinds of narrative discourse we bring to it, demographic trends in exogamy and “assimilation”, for instance, not only reflect an “erosion” or “growth” of population size and composition, but tensions about the measure and meaning of Jewish identity and the development and maintenance of consensus on core Jewish values. Therefore, whether we see erosion or resilience in our research depends on how a study is designed, what categories are used, how the data are collected and what interpretive framework is presented for its analyses. In this sense, it matters not if we are qualitative and/or quantitative in our approach but rather where we enter the conversation, why we see it as important, and to what end we will tell our research stories.
Starting Page	399
Ending Page	403
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01471694
Journal	Contemporary Jewry
Volume Number	37
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	18765165
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2017-10-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Qualitative sociology Narrative research Theory Jewish identity Sociology of Religion Anthropology Religious Studies Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Religious Studies History Anthropology Cultural Studies

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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