Guy Ben-Porat

Between State and Synagogue (eBook, PDF)

The Secularization of Contemporary Israel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A thriving, yet small, liberal component in Israeli society has frequently taken issue with the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy, largely with limited success. However, Guy Ben-Porat suggests, in recent years, in part because of demographic changes and in part because of the influence of an increasingly consumer-oriented society, dramatic changes have occurred in secularization of significant parts of public and private lives. Even though these fissures often have more to do with lifestyle choices and economics than with political or religious ideology, the demands and choices of a secular public and a burgeoning religious presence in the government are becoming ever more difficult to reconcile. The evidence, which the author has accrued from numerous interviews and a detailed survey, is nowhere more telling than in areas that demand religious sanction such as marriage, burial, the sale of pork, and the operation of businesses on the Sabbath.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139603126
• Artikelnr.: 52859076

Autorenporträt

Dr Guy Ben-Porat has been with the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Ben-Gurion University since 2001. He is a co-author of Israel Since 1980 (2008) and co-editor of The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship: Land, Religion and State (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Figures and tables
Preface and acknowledgments
1. Unpacking secularization
2. Israel: from status quo to crisis
3. The state of marriage: regulating and de-regulating love
4. Burial: a matter of lifestyle
5. Pig on the plate: from 'white steak' to pork
6. Live and let buy: bargaining for Sabbath
7. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.