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- Title
Jewish Secular-Believer Women in Israel: A Complex and Ambivalent Identity.
- Authors
Lahav, Hagar
- Abstract
About a quarter of Israeli Jews are secular-believers. They identify themselves as secular but also believe in some kind of divinity (whether or not they use the term 'God'). As opposed to the 'secularization thesis', which perceives such combination of secularism and faith as a contradiction in terms, the current post-secular paradigm sees such hybridity as a deep manifestation of the complex relations between the secular and the religious in postmodern culture. This study offers, for the first time, a deep sociological look at Jewish-Israeli secular-believer women, based on 31 in-depth interviews. It discusses the interviewees' perceptions of secularity, religion, and Judaism, revealing the complexity and characteristic ambivalence of their identity, while reflecting on similarities and differences between secular-believers and traditionalist (masorti) Israeli Jews.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; SECULARISM -- Social aspects; WOMEN; RELIGIOUS life of women; SOCIOLOGICAL research; JUDAISM &; secularism; FEMININE identity; PATRIARCHY; RELIGION
- Publication
Israel Studies Review, 2017, Vol 32, Issue 2, p66
- ISSN
2159-0370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/isr.2017.320205