Between state and synagogue : the secularization of Contemporary Israel / / Guy Ben-Porat [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Ben-Porat Guy
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 322/.1095694
• Soggetto topico: Judaism - Israel; Judaism and state - Israel; Secularism - Israel; Jews - Israel - Identity
• Soggetto geografico: Israel Politics and government
• Classificazione: POL040020
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 6 Live and Let Buy: Bargaining for the Sabbath
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Between State & Synagogue
• Titolo autorizzato: Between state and synagogue
• ISBN: 1-107-23407-7; 1-139-60999-8; 1-139-61557-2; 1-139-61185-2; 0-511-84380-1; 1-107-25414-0; 1-139-62487-3; 1-139-62115-7; 1-283-94353-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779315903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge Middle East studies ; ; 42.