Israeli Judaism
Subtitle: the sociology of religion in Israel
By: edited by Shlomo Deshen, Charles S. Liebman, Moshe Skokeid.
Contributors: Deshen, Shlomo A.; Liebman, Charles S.; Shokeid, Moshe.
Series: Studies of Israeli society ;; v. 7; Publication series of the Israel Sociological Society
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Judaism -- Israel.; Judaism -- Customs and practices.; Judaism -- Social aspects -- Israel.; Israel -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Editorial introduction : the study of religion in Israeli social science / Shlomo Deshen; title: Sociological analyses of religion / Stephen Sharot; title: Dimensions of Jewish religiosity / Peri Kedem; title: Jewish civilization : approaches to problems of Israeli society / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt; title: State ceremonies of Israel : Remembrance Day and Independence Day / Don Handelman and Elihu Katz; title: Religious adherence and political attitudes / Yochanan Peres; title: Religion in the Israeli discourse on the Arab-Jewish conflict / Shlomo Deshen; title: Life tradition and book tradition in the development of ultraorthodox Judaism / Menachem Friedman; title: Ultraorthodox Jewish women / Tamar El-Or; title: Religious kibbutzim : Judaism and modernization / Aryei Fishman; title: A mystic-messianic interpretation of modern Israeli history : the Six-Day War in the religious culture of Gush Emunim / Gideon Aran; title: The religiosity of Middle Eastern Jews / Moshe Shokeid; title: Secularization and the diminishing decline of religion / Hannah Ayalon, Eliezer Ben-Raphael, and Stephen Sharot; title: Saints' sanctuaries in development towns / Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu; title: The religion of elderly oriental Jewish women / Susan Sered; title: Hanukkah and the myth of the Maccabees in ideology and in society / Eliezer Don-Yehiya; title: Death customs in a non-religious kibbutz / Nissan Rubin; title: Americans in the Israeli reform and conservative denominations / Ephraim Tabory and Bernard Lazerwitz; title: Religion and democracy in Israel / Charles S. Liebman.