| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 246 pages) |
| Contents |
Laying the groundworks: concepts, definitions, and methodology -- Women of the Wall in focus: examining the various aspects of the WOW's struggle -- The dominant culture view and the Women of the Wall: competing significances, elusive tradition, and inegalitarianism -- Evenhandedness, thick sites, and the Women of the Wall: permissible but inapplicable? -- Privatization, thick sites and the Women of the Wall: a suggested solution |
| Summary |
The Women of the Wall are leading a groundbreaking struggle to gain the Israeli authorities' permission to pray according to their manner at Judaism's holiest prayer site, the Western Wall. This book is the first comprehensive academic study of their struggle, placing it in a comparative and theoretical context of wider religion-state conflicts and models |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 19, 2017) |
| Subject |
Women of the Wall (Organization : Israel)
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| SUBJECT |
Women of the Wall (Organization : Israel) fast (OCoLC)fst00771726 |
| Subject |
Western Wall (Jerusalem)
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Jewish women -- Religious life -- Israel
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Women in Judaism -- Israel
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Jewish women -- Religious life.
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Western Wall (Jerusalem)
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Women in Judaism.
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Israel.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perez, Nahshon, 1973- author
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| LC no. |
2016048399 |
| ISBN |
9780190280451 |
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019028045X |
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