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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797443903321

Autore

Englander Yaḳir

Titolo

Sexuality and the body in new religious Zionist discourse / / Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi ; translated by Batya Stein ; cover design by Ivan Grave with Inbal Pinto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61811-453-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Israel: Society, Culture, and History

Disciplina

201.7

Soggetti

Gender identity - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The New Religious-Zionist Halakhah: A Conceptual Outline -- Chapter Two. The Shift in the Discourse: Autarc hic Male Sexuality -- Chapter Three. The Shift in the Discourse: Autarc hic Female Sexuality -- Chapter Four. Real and Imagined Women -- Chapter Five. The Other Voice -- Chapter Six. Concluding Reflections: From a Realist Disposition to an Imagined Realm -- Appendix The Discourse on Sexuality, Metaphysics, and Messianism -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace, and considers such issues as homosexuality, lesbianism, masturbation, and the relationships between the sexes. It also analyzes the shift to a pastoral discourse and alternative religious perspectives dealing with this discourse together with its far wider social and cultural implications, offering a new paradigm for reading religious cultures.