Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 Chapter 1: Editorial Introduction The Study of Religion in Israeli Social Science; 2 Chapter 2: Sociological Analyses of Religion; 3 Chapter 3: Dimensions of Jewish Religiosity; Part II: Political Dimensions of Israeli Judaism; 4 Chapter 4: Jewish Civilization: Approaches to Problems of Israeli Society; 5 Chapter 5: State Ceremonies of Israel: Remembrance Day and Independence Day; 6 Chapter 6: Religious Adherence and Political Attitudes
7 Chapter 7: Religion in the Israeli Discourse on the Arab-Jewish Conflict8 Life Tradition and Book Tradition in the Development of Ultraorthodox Judaism; 9 Ultraorthodox Jewish Women; Part IV: Nationalist Orthodoxy; 10 Religious Kibbutzim: Judaism and Modernization; 11 A Mystic-Messianic Interpretation of Modem Israeli History: The Six-Day War in the Religious Culture of Gush Emunim; Part V: The Sephardic Pattern; 12 The Religiosity of Middle Eastern Jews; 13 Secularization and the Diminishing Decline of Religion; 14 Saintsâ#x80;#x99; Sanctuaries in Development Towns
15 The Religion of Elderly Oriental Jewish WomenPart VI: Secularism and Reform; 16 Hanukkah and the Myth of the Maccabees in Ideology and in Society; 17 Death Customs in a Non-Religious Kibbutz; 18 Americans in the Israeli Reform and Conservative Denominations; 19 Religion and Democracy in Israel; Selected Bibliography; About the Authors
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Originally published 1995 by Transaction Publishers
