In December 1993, the Louis Guttman Israel Institute of Applied Social Research released the results of the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the religious beliefs and behavior of Israeli Jews. The study revealed that Israeli Jews were far more traditional in their religious beliefs and behavior than previously thought, resulting in an intense public debate within Israeli society.
This book summarizes the Guttman Report and describes how the media and Israeli intellectuals responded to it and imposed their own interpretations. It then analyzes the report in greater detail and puts in global perspective Israeli Jews’ ritual behavior, religious beliefs, and attitudes toward religion in public life. The editors conclude that the religious traditionalism of Israeli Jews is unique among advanced industrial societies. They seek to explain this uniqueness in terms of the particular nature of Israeli society, focusing on Israel’s security problems and suggesting the impact that a new security situation would have on Israeli Jews and how it would reshape the Israeli political map.
Tabela de Conteúdo
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Avi Chai Foundation
Preface
1. Beliefs, Observances and Social Interaction Among Israeli Jews: The Guttman Institute Report
Shlomit Levy, Hanna Levinsohn, and Elihu Katz
2. The Media and the Guttman Report
Charles S. Liebmen
3. Academics and Other Intellectuals
Charles S. Liebman
4. Behavioral and Phenomenological Jewishness
Elihu Katz
5. Religion and Modernity: The Special Case of Israel
Charles S. Liebman
6. Cultural Conflict in Israeli Society
Charles S. Liebman
Appendix: The Van Leer Papers
Israel Bartal, Gerald J. Blidstein, Shlomo Deshen, Menachem Friedman, Shlomo Riskin, Eliezer Shweid, Gerson Shaked, Bernard (Baruch) Susser, Eddy M. Zemach, and A, Yehoshua Zuckerman
Index
Sobre o autor
Charles S. Liebman is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Argov Center for the Study of Israel and the Jewish People at Bar-Ilan University.
Elihu Katz is Trustee Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; Scientific Director at the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research; and Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Between them Professor Liebman and Professor Katz have published more than twenty books.
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