Symbolic religiosity

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Symbolic religiosity is a term coined by sociologist Herbert Gans.^[1]^[2]

Gans explores the concept of symbolic religiosity as a concept parallel to, although separate from symbolic ethnicity. To Gans, symbolic religiosity is religious behavior detached from any comprehensive religious observance or religious affiliation.^[3]

References

↑ Symbolic ethnicity and symbolic religiosity: Towards a comparison of ethnic and religious acculturation HJ Gans - Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
↑ Symbolic Ethnicity or Religion among Jews in the United States: a Test of Gansian Hypotheses. JA Winter - Review of Religious Research, 1996
↑ A critical commentary on gans'“symbolic ethnicity and symbolic religiosity” and other formulations of ethnicity and religion regarding American Jews S Sharot - Contemporary Jewry, 1997 - Springer

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