Marta F. Topel

Jewish Orthodoxy and Its Discontents

Religious Dissidence in Contemporary Israel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Marta T. Topel utilizes anthropological research to analyze both macro and micro social processes among secular and Orthodox Jews in Israel. Topel approaches religious dissidence within the Jewish Israeli Orthodoxy through the lens of the inverse phenomenon: religious conversion to Jewish Orthodoxy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780761859178
• ISBN-10: 0761859179
• Artikelnr.: 35940953

Autorenporträt

Marta F. Topel, (Ph.D.), is a researcher and a junior lecturer in the Program for Jewish Studies of the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). She is the author of several articles on Jewish orthodoxy and modern Judaism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Disenchantment of the World and the Dismantlement of
Rabbinical Judaism
Chapter 2: Religion and Religious Coercion in the State of Israel
Chapter 3: Religious Dissidents, the New Marranos and the Discontented; or,
Of a Certain Unrest in the Orthodox Universe
Chapter 4: Separation: In Search of Questions
Chapter 5: In the Margin of the Margins
Chapter 6: Incorporation: A Limited Number of Answers to a Great Many
Questions
Glossary
Bibliography
Index