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Author Ben-Porat, Guy, author.

Title Between State and Synagogue : the Secularization of Contemporary Israel
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Series Cambridge Middle East Studies
Cambridge Middle East studies.
Contents 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
Summary Guy Ben-Porat explores the evolving tensions between the liberal component in Israeli society and the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy
Notes 6 Live and Let Buy: Bargaining for the Sabbath
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Judaism -- Israel
Judaism and state -- Israel.
Secularism -- Israel
Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Jews -- Identity
Judaism
Judaism and state
Politics and government
Secularism
SUBJECT Israel -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068700
Subject Israel
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139615570
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9781139624879
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9780511843808
0511843801
9781139611855
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