Doctoral Dissertation Research: Drawing the Line on Community Boundaries - A Case Study of Jewish Christians and the Jewish Community

这是在提高博士论文研究计划下的一个奖项。它是对犹太基督教的研究，这是一个向传统犹太社区提出挑战的宗教运动，以及他们如何应对它。作为对宗教社会学的贡献，本书将提供对分裂后涉及双方的紧张关系的罕见考察。对于社会学来说，它将扩展对社会文化边界维护和凝聚力群体对身份挑战的反应的研究。宗教是社会学家重新感兴趣的一个话题，这项研究将成为当前重振这一重要领域的新一波研究的一部分。除了研究取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将极大地帮助极有前途的学生完成博士论文的研究。因此，它有助于未来的科学人才和下一代社会学家的全面培养。

This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research program. It is a study of Jewish Christianity, a religious movement that presents a challenge to conventional Jewish communities, and of how they respond to it. As a contribution to the sociology of religion, this will offer a rare examination of the tension involving both sides after a schism. For sociology more generally, it will extend research on socio- cultural boundary maintenance and the responses of cohesive groups to identity challenges. Religion is a topic of renewed interest to sociologists, and this study will be part of the fresh wave of research that is currently revitalizing this important field. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to future scientific manpower and the thorough training of the next generation of sociologists.