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1 online resource (284 pages). |
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Cambridge Middle East Studies
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Cambridge Middle East studies.
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| Contents |
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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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6 Live and Let Buy: Bargaining for the Sabbath. |
| Summary |
Guy Ben-Porat explores the evolving tensions between the liberal component in Israeli society and the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Judaism -- Israel.
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Judaism. |
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Israel. |
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Judaism and state -- Israel.
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Judaism and state. |
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Secularism -- Israel.
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Secularism. |
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Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
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Jews. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Israel -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ben-Porat, Guy. Between State and Synagogue : The Secularization of Contemporary Israel. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107003446 |
| ISBN |
9781139615570 |
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1139615572 |
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9781139624879 (electronic book) |
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1139624873 (electronic book) |
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9780511843808 (electronic book) |
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0511843801 (electronic book) |
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9781139611855 (e-book) |
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1139611852 (e-book) |
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9781107003446 |
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110700344X |
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9780521176996 |
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0521176999 |
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40022179599 |
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