Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women exhibit a deep awareness of how to manage their usage of media as tools to increase their social and religious capital.
Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women exhibit a deep awareness of how to manage their usage of media as tools to increase their social and religious capital.
RIVKA NERIYA-BEN SHAHAR is a senior lecturer at Sapir Academic College in Sderot, Israel, where she teaches communications, religion, and gender.
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List of Tables Introduction: The Miracle, Case Studies, and Methods 1 Under the Eyes of God: One Day in the Life of an Old Order Amish Woman 2 From the Holy House and Community to the Secular Workplace and Back: One Day in the Life of an Ultra-Orthodox Woman 3 Only Occasionally, When I Happen to Be around One : Self-Justifications of Media Consumption as Boundary Management 4 My Husband Just Told Me . . . : The Women s Relationships with News 5 Satan s Tool to Draw Our Focus away from God : The Women s Perceptions about Media Technologies and Content 6 We d Rather Talk about Babies : Sharing Behaviors among Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Women 7 I Made It as a Boundary for Myself : Concluding Discussion on the Women s Boundary Management Appendix: The Specific Data and Statistics on the Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Women s Media Consumption Acknowledgments Notes References Index
List of Tables Introduction: The Miracle, Case Studies, and Methods 1 Under the Eyes of God: One Day in the Life of an Old Order Amish Woman 2 From the Holy House and Community to the Secular Workplace and Back: One Day in the Life of an Ultra-Orthodox Woman 3 Only Occasionally, When I Happen to Be around One : Self-Justifications of Media Consumption as Boundary Management 4 My Husband Just Told Me . . . : The Women s Relationships with News 5 Satan s Tool to Draw Our Focus away from God : The Women s Perceptions about Media Technologies and Content 6 We d Rather Talk about Babies : Sharing Behaviors among Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Women 7 I Made It as a Boundary for Myself : Concluding Discussion on the Women s Boundary Management Appendix: The Specific Data and Statistics on the Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Women s Media Consumption Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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