Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse

Englander, Yakir; Śagi, Avi

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“…In the study of religious-Zionism as a concrete entity, there is room for the analysis of texts that are part of the public discourse-the press, minutes and decisions of meetings involving religious-Zionist groups, responsa literature dealing with day-to-day questions in the life of religious-Zionists, and more. This research is indeed a study of discourse but also records modes of life and social changes, as illustrated by the book by Yakir Englander and myself, Sexuality and the Body in the New Religious-Zionist Discourse (Englander and Sagi 2015). In the study of actual religious-Zionism, members' testimonies play a significant role and the present essay is my personal testimony, as someone who grew up and lives within it.…”

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“Religious-Zionism”: Signifier without Signified? Or—Is Religious-Zionism Still Alive?

Śagi

2022

Religions

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In the public discourse and the research literature, the signifier “religious-Zionism” is usually viewed as denoting a specific group located midway between secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews. This location does not turn religious-Zionism into a residual category including whoever is not part of the two others. Quite the contrary. Religious-Zionism used to be a group with unique characteristics, including values and a normative fullness of its own. I argue in this article that, at present, the category “religious-Zionism” no longer signifies a specific group due to a series of centrifugal processes affecting it. Its ethos, myth, textual web, and authority principle have collapsed and the signifier reflects no more than a political and rabbinic discourse attempting to control the breakdown.

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Section: Conflicts Of Interestmentioning

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“Religious-Zionism”: Signifier without Signified? Or—Is Religious-Zionism Still Alive?

Śagi

2022

Religions

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“…Jewish scripture forbids anal penetration between men but the dominant Orthodox theological position holds that other forms of same‐sex intimacy, including between women, defy Jewish moral teachings and tradition (Ben Nae 2016; Englander and Sagi 2015; Greenberg 2004; Irshai 2018). These positions are based on Old Testament passages including the creation stories of Genesis 1–2, the lists of abominations of Leviticus 18–20, and the fate of Sodom and Gomorah.…”

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Religious Queer People Beyond Identity Conflict: Lessons from Orthodox LGBT Jews in Israel

Avishai

2020

Scientific Study of Religion

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A key thread of research on how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons of faith navigate and make sense of gender and sexual identities and desires that defy their religious traditions’ teachings focuses on identity conflict, management, negotiation, and reconciliation. Drawing on interviews with 64 Orthodox Jewish same‐sex attracted persons in Israel, supplemented by physical and digital ethnographic data, I argue that the conflict frame is empirically imprecise and conceptually flawed. I demonstrate fluidity and ambivalence vis‐à‐vis religiosity and sexual identity and argue that ambivalence is generative: In the process of making sense of their sexual and religious selves, my respondents challenge what it means to be Orthodox and what it means to be same‐sex attracted, thereby challenging the conflict frame's categorical schema. I then make the case for a more contextualized and dynamic framework for theorizing LGBT negotiations of religious and sexual identities. I also observe that the limitations of the conflict lens are symptomatic of broader tendencies in the sociology of religion to rely on U.S. and Christian cases and a pattern of limited engagement with work in other disciplines and subdisciplines.

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Transformations from Within

Lustenberger

2020

Judaism in Motion

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Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse

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“Religious-Zionism”: Signifier without Signified? Or—Is Religious-Zionism Still Alive?

“Religious-Zionism”: Signifier without Signified? Or—Is Religious-Zionism Still Alive?

Religious Queer People Beyond Identity Conflict: Lessons from Orthodox LGBT Jews in Israel

Transformations from Within

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