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Between State and Synagogue : the Secularization of Contemporary Israel.
Guy Ben-Porat explores the evolving tensions between the liberal component in Israeli society and the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge Middle East studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Between State and Synagogue; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Secularization: Theoretical Context; Secularization: Israel as a Case Study; Main Argument and Methodology; Outline of the Book; Acknowledgments; 1 Unpacking Secularization; Secularization: from Inevitable to Debatable; Secularization, Religion, and Politics: a Neoinstitutional Framework; Political Arrangements: Religion and the State; Between Secularism and Secularization; All That Is Solid? Religion, Economy, and Secularization; Globalization: New Game, New Rules?
- Secular EntrepreneursGlobalization and Governance: What Game? What Rules?; Secularization and Globalization: Local Unfolding; Explaining Secularization: An Alternative Model; 2 Israel: From Status Quo to Crisis; Nationality, Sovereignty, and the Status Quo; Statehood and the Status Quo; Secularism and the Status Quo: Demands for Religious Freedom; Secularism: The Limits of an Ideology; Secularization: New Challenges to the Status Quo; Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Consumer Society; FSU Immigrants and the Changing Demography; Jewish but Not Orthodox: Cultural Alternatives.
- Religion in the Private and the Public Spheres: Counter-SecularizationBorn-Again Jews; SHAS: Religious and Political Revival; Zionist Revival: The Jewish Way; Religious and/or Secular
- The Numbers; Religion and Politics: From Status Quo to Crisis; Secular Entrepreneurs: Agents of Change; Taking It to the Courts; Subpolitics and Secularization; Conclusions: Between Secularization and Secularism; 3 The State of Marriage: Regulating and De-Regulating Love; Israel: Rules of the Game; Status Quo: Undermined; Secular Entrepreneurs: Creating Choices; What Do Israelis Want?; The Political Realm.
- Course of Action: The CourtsSecular Ceremonies: Bottom-Up Changes; Marriage Abroad; Cohabitation and Common-Law Marriage; The Orthodox Reaction
- Change from within?; Conclusions: Marriage and the Decline of Religious Authority; 4 Burial: A Matter of Lifestyle; Israel
- Rules of the Game; Immigration as a Force for Change; Secular Funerals: Aesthetic Preference and Postmaterialist Values; Secular Burial
- Conservatism, Needs, and Demands; Secular Entrepreneurs; The Political Realm; The Courts; Civil Cemeteries
- The Public Alternative; Planning Funerals: Taking Charge.
- Private Services: Ideology and LifestyleCivil Burial
- Public vs. Private; Orthodox Reactions; Conclusions; 5 Pig on the Plate: From "White Steak" to Pork; Food: Beyond Eating; Rules of the Game: Politics of Pork; Politicized Pigs: An Age of Strife; De-Politicized Pigs
- Demography and Economics; Israelis and the Pig: New Perceptions?; The Legal Sphere; From Struggle to Growth; The Economy of Pork: Secular Identities and Business Strategies; Religious Authority and Consumer Choice: Beyond Pork; Re-Politicized Pork? Minority Rights and Local Struggles; Conclusion.