Tradition, Innovation, Conflict: Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Israel

by Zvi Sobel (Editor), Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (Editor)

Overview

This book examines religion in Israeli society: what it is and how it functions. Here is a clear picture of how Judaism provides a matrix of continuity for Israeli society notwithstanding a wide diversity of beliefs and practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438420592
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Series:	SUNY series in Israeli Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	316
File size:	758 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Zvi Sobel teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is the author of Christianity: The 13th Tribe and Migrants From the Promised Land. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi teaches in the Psychology Department at the University of Haifa and is the co-author of The Social Psychology of Religion with M. Argyle and Research in Religious Behaviour: Selected Readings.

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. The author of several books, he is co-editor with Zvi Sobel of Tradition, Innovation, Conflict: Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Israel, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and Zvi Sobel

Part I. The Communal Dimension

1. Conflict and Communitas: The Interplay of Religion, Ethnicity, and Community in a Galilee Village
Zvi Sobel

2. Personal Motivation and Social Meaning in the Revival of Hagiolatric Traditions among Moroccan Jews in Israel
Yoram Bilu

3. The Jerusalem Funeral as a Microcosm of the 'Mismeeting' between Religious and Secular Israelis
Henry Abramovitch

4. Tradition and Innovation in Jewish Religious Education in Israel
Mordecai Bar-Lev

Part II. Dissent and Religious Alternatives

5. The Identity Dilemma of Non-Orthodox Religious Movements: Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel
Ephraim Tabory

6. Back to the Fold: The Return to Judaism
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

7. Conversion Experiences: Newcomers to and Defectors from Orthodox Judaism (horzim betshuvah and hozrim beshe'elah)
William Shaffir

8. Judaism and the New Religions in Israel: 1970–1990
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Part III. The Religiosity Factor

9. Effects of Religiosity on Attitudes and Behavior
Leonard Weller

10. Dimensions of Jewish Religiosity in Israel
Peri Kedem

11. Religious, Ethnic, and Class Divisions in Israel: Convergent or Cross Cutting?
Hanna Ayalon, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Stephen Sharot

About the Contributors

Index

Editorial Reviews

There is a general lack of literature dealing specifically with the roles of religious and secular life in contemporary Israel. In addition, the public perception in this country, is that social and political life in Israel is often equated with orthodox Judaism. For this reason his book provides an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary Israel.— Gertrude Lenzer, Brooklyn College

From the Publisher

A mosaic of personal knowledge and beliefs by Israeli scholars of sociology, education, and psychology, concerning the state of religion within the religious state. The 11 essays approach the investigation from the communal dimension, dissent and religious alternatives, and the religiosity factor. Considers differences between the various groups of ethnic immigrants, class divisions, and the impact of new religions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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