Shaming in Judaism: Past, Present, Future
It is sometimes thought that public shaming is a new phenomenon, only emerging with the advent of the Internet and, in particular, with the rapid growth of social media. Yet, from a historical and religious viewpoint public shaming can be seen as a modern version of legal penal practices that were c...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Creighton University
2017
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2017, Volume: 19 |
Further subjects: | B
Medieval Jewish communities
B Shaming B Judaism B New Media B Rabbinical court B Social networks (SNS) |
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Summary: | It is sometimes thought that public shaming is a new phenomenon, only emerging with the advent of the Internet and, in particular, with the rapid growth of social media. Yet, from a historical and religious viewpoint public shaming can be seen as a modern version of legal penal practices that were common in the Middle Ages and occasionally resorted to in subsequent years. In this article, we survey the various modes of public shaming within the Jewish community in the Middle Ages and in modern times. We review whether and how the new practice of communications shaming on social media has been adopted by religious institutions as an extension of communal, traditional shaming, and discuss how rabbis relate to this today. |
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ISSN: | 1522-5658 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
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Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10504/113361 |