TY - BOOK AU - Davidman,Lynn TI - Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews SN - 9780199380510 AV - BM197.6.D38 2015 U1 - 296.832 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Orthodox Judaism--Relations--Nontraditional Jews KW - Ultra-Orthodox Jews--United States--Anecdotes KW - Electronic books N1 - COVER -- BECOMING UN-ORTHODOX: STORIES OF EX-HASIDIC JEWS -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDIACTION -- A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE: THE LIFE WORLDSOF HASIDIC JEWS -- HASIDIC LIFE: THE METANARRATIVE AND RELIGIOUS BODILY PRACTICES -- OVERVIEW OF ORTHODOXY -- HASIDIC FAMILIES -- NARRATIVES AND EMBODIMENT -- CHAPTER TWO: TEARS IN THE SACRED CANOPY -- EXPOSURE TO THE SECULAR WORLD -- EHUD -- SAM -- ABBY -- SECULAR RELATIVES -- LEAH -- RUTIE -- NON-NORMATIVE FAMILIES -- LEAH -- SARAH -- SHLOMO -- ABUSE -- ADINA -- ABBY -- HADAS -- FEMINIST CRITIQUE -- ADINA -- RUTIE -- LEAH -- CHAPTER THREE: FIRST TRANSGRESSIONS -- BREAKING GENDER TABOOS -- ABBY -- ADINA -- FORBIDDEN PLACES -- SHLOMO -- THE PURSUIT OF FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE -- BINYAMIN -- LEAH -- BODILY VIOLATIONS: DRESS, COMPORTMENT, AND APPEARANCE -- YOSSI -- SIMA -- ALIZA -- ESTHER -- LEAH -- EHUD -- RACHEL -- CHAPTER FOUR: PASSING -- LEAH -- BINYAMIN -- EHUD -- ABBY -- ALIZA -- ELISHEVA -- ARYEH -- SAM -- CHAPTER FIVE: STEPPING OUT -- GENDERED EXIT STRATEGIES -- EHUD -- LEAH -- ARYEH -- CREATING DISTANCE -- SAM -- PRECIPITATING EVENTS -- BINYAMIN -- SARAH -- RUTIE -- CHAPTER SIX: YOU CAN'T TURN OFF YOUR PAST -- REMNANTS OF THE PAST -- LANGUAGE -- GENDERED EMBODIED PRACTICES -- CLOTHING AND BODILY COMPORTMENT -- RELIGIOUS PRACTICES -- ONGOING FEELINGS OF LOSS -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX I: Theoretical Framework: Narratives, Embodiment, Religion, and Identity -- CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY THROUGH NARRATIVE -- RELIGION, IDENTITY, GENDER, AND EMBODIMENT -- APPENDIX II: Interview Guide for Those Who Have Left Orthodoxy -- PROCESS OF LEAVING -- EFFECTS OF LEAVING -- GROWING UP/CHILDHOOD/FAMILY -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- APPENDIX ONE -- REFERENCES -- INDEX N2 - Lynn Davidman offers an in-depth study of defectors from Orthodox Judaism, showing how they negotiate the difficult passage away from their families and communities and reconstruct their identities in new social contexts UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1802460 ER -