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BETWEEN STATE AND SYNAGOGUE
THE SECULARIZATION OF CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL |
| By: |
Guy Ben-Porat |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£57.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
110700344X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781107003446 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 March, 2013 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Middle East Studies 42 |
| Pages: |
284 |
| Description: |
Guy Ben-Porat explores the evolving tensions between the liberal component in Israeli society and the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy. |
| Synopsis: |
A thriving, yet small, liberal component in Israeli society has frequently taken issue with the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy, largely with limited success. However, Guy Ben-Porat suggests, in recent years, in part because of demographic changes and in part because of the influence of an increasingly consumer-oriented society, dramatic changes have occurred in secularization of significant parts of public and private lives. Even though these fissures often have more to do with lifestyle choices and economics than with political or religious ideology, the demands and choices of a secular public and a burgeoning religious presence in the government are becoming ever more difficult to reconcile. The evidence, which the author has accrued from numerous interviews and a detailed survey, is nowhere more telling than in areas that demand religious sanction such as marriage, burial, the sale of pork, and the operation of businesses on the Sabbath. |
| Illustrations: |
13 b/w illus. 14 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies 2014 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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