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The Pew Report most significant weakness is its conceptualization of the variety of ways in which people understand and define Jewishness. With an overabundance of terms for religion and a paucity of terms for other registers for understanding Jewish life, the Report limits its own ability to adequately account for the lives of American Jews.
This is an expanded version of an article I published online on October 4, 2013 http://www.stanford.edu/group/edjs/cgi-bin/wordpress/2013/10/04/the-hegemony-of-religion/.
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Kelman, A.Y. (2015). A Policy of Surveys. In: Dashefsky, A., Sheskin, I. (eds) American Jewish Year Book 2014. American Jewish Year Book, vol 114. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09623-0_9
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