Yadgar Sovereign Jews

Israel, Zionism, and Judaism
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6535-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yadgar, Yaacov

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Jewish Sovereignty?

Part I: Religion, Judaism, Tradition

1. Religion – The History and Politics of an Ahistorical Concept

2. Are Jewish Traditions a Religion?

3. Tradition as Language and Narrative

Part II: Zionism and Jewish Traditions

4. Zionism, Jewish ‘Religion,’ and Secularism

5. Zionism and Jewish Traditions

6. Main Zionist Streams and Jewish Traditions

Part III: The Israeli Nation-State and Jewish Traditions

7. Israeliness vs. Jewishness: National Identity in Israel and Jewish Traditions

8. Statist Jews: Secularity, Sovereignty, Zionism – and Judaism

9. Who Needs the Status Quo? Statist Jews and “Religious Coercion”

Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Yaacov Yadgar is Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics: Traditionists and Modernity.