ASSIMILATION — ASSIMILATION. In general the sociocultural process in which the sense and consciousness of association with one national and cultural group changes to identification with another such group, so that the merged individual or group may partially or … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Assimilation (French colonial) — Assimilation was one ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. In contrast with British imperial policy, the French taught their subjects that, by adopting French language and culture, they could eventually… … Wikipedia
Religious indoctrination — refers to customary rites of passage for the indoctrination of persons into a particular religion and its extended community.Terms generally vary by culture, custom, and language, though some terms, like baptism, are pluralist and applicable… … Wikipedia
assimilation — /euh sim euh lay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of assimilating; state or condition of being assimilated. 2. Physiol. the conversion of absorbed food into the substance of the body. 3. Bot. the total process of plant nutrition, including… … Universalium
RELIGIOUS LIFE AND COMMUNITIES — Jews UNDER OTTOMAN RULE The Jews of the pre Zionist old yishuv, both sephardim (from the Orient) and ashkenazim (of European origin), dedicated their lives to the fulfillment of religious precepts: the study of the torah and the meticulous… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Religious conversion — The Conversion of Saint Paul, a 1600 painting by Italian artist Caravaggio (1571–1610) Part of a series on the Religious conversion Types … Wikipedia
Forced assimilation — is a process of forced cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups, into an established and generally larger community. This presumes a loss of many characteristics which make the minority different. Ethnic assimilation If a… … Wikipedia
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Cultural assimilation — is a socio political response to demographic multi ethnicity that supports or promotes the assimilation of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture. The term assimilation is often used with regard to immigrants and various ethnic groups who… … Wikipedia
Jewish assimilation — is a social and religious process of loss of the Jewish identity of an individual by marriage to a spouse that is not Jewish, or the abandonment of the Jewish religion to adopt another religion which is more common, and thus more acceptable at… … Wikipedia
