The 'Religionization' of Israeli Society

Peri, Yoram; Hermann, Tamar; Fischer, Shlomo; Cohen, Asher; Susser, Bernard; Leon, Nissim; Yadgar, Yaacov

doi:10.3167/isr.2012.270102

Cited by 33 publications

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“…Over the decades, this compromise has been reinforced by further agreements between the Orthodox and secular sectors, represented generally by the National Religious sector and the Labor movement respectively. These arrangements have affirmed the inherent link between Orthodox Judaism, citizenship, and nationhood in the Jewish state, on the one hand, and the state's Jewish ethno-religious regime, on the other, implying limits to the integration of non-Jewish Israeli citizens into the new state (Barzilai 2010;Bystrov 2012;Levy 2011;Peri et al 2012).…”

Section: Contextualizing the Issuementioning

confidence: 95%

The Spousal Covenant (Brit Hazugiut), or the Covenant with the Status Quo

Fogiel-Bijaoui¹

2013

Israel Studies Review

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In 2010, the Knesset passed the Spousal Covenant Act, which enables Israelis 'lacking religious affiliation' to marry and divorce in Israel. Using the 'twin tolerations' theory, I present the process and the actors involved in the legislation, pointing out that in Israel the twin tolerations are reflected in the so-called status quo. On the basis of that analysis, I argue that the spousal covenant, initially aimed at solving the problem of all individuals forbidden to marry in Israel, but especially 'non-Halakhic' Jews from the FSU, ended up as a marginalizing law, excluding those non-Halakhic Jews from the Jewish-Israeli collective. I further argue that non-Halakhic Jews from the FSU no longer contest the Israeli religious regime of inclusion and instead use the 'established bypasses'-cohabitation and civil marriage abroad-both to get married and to be part of the national collective.

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Section: Contextualizing the Issuementioning

confidence: 95%

The Spousal Covenant (Brit Hazugiut), or the Covenant with the Status Quo

Fogiel-Bijaoui¹

2013

Israel Studies Review

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“…whether Israel is going through a religionization or securalization process. In the eyes of critical scholars, the religious sector's growing political and social influence indicates that Israel is undergoing a religionization process (Peri et al ). Conversely, others identify signs of secularization in the wake of processes of privatization, liberalization and capitalism, even in the context of personal matters (Ben‐Porat ; Fisher ).…”

Section: Israel's Disputable Religion and Nationality Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secularization of immigration policy vs. religion's influence on integration: Israel's non‐Jewish Jews' immigration in a comparative perspective

Fisher

2018

Nations and Nationalism

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This article deals with the complex relationship between religion and immigration in Western countries, with an emphasis on Israel. The main argument it presents is that the legal procedures of immigration, i.e. laws relating to the acquisition of civil status, have undergone dramatic secularization, while religion's influence is expressed in the social and cultural aspects of the integration of immigrants belonging to religious minorities. This division reinforces the classical theory of secularization, as the formal boundaries of nations are not subject to religious affiliations, but it also supports the theories of competition and complementation between religion and secularism in the social sphere. The tension in the Israeli case between the immigration, naturalization and integration of non‐Jewish Jews, who are part of the extended Jewish population that is not defined by religious parameters, confirms this thesis. The immigration of hundreds of thousands of non‐Jewish Jews' under the Law of Return based on ethno‐national‐secular parameters is an ultimate expression of the secularization of Jewish nationality. On the other hand, the state's encouragement of non‐Jewish immigrants to convert to Judaism so that they can better assimilate into Jewish society signifies the importance of religion in the social integration aspect.

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“…On the other hand, other researchers pointed out that the rise in the number of citizens reporting religious behavior, mainly in an orthodox fashion, along with the continued existence of high-level orthodox religious institutionalization, reflect religion's expanding role both in the behavioral and in the institutional authority dimensions (Peri et al 2012; Ram 2008). Others pointed to the “traditionalists” who are in between secularism and religiosity (Yadgar 2011), not strictly observing religious norms but showing ceremonial and political loyalty, as explained above.…”

Section: Secularization and Religionization In Israelmentioning

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Fragmentary Theory of Secularization and Religionization — Changes in the Family Structure as a Case Study

Fisher

2016

Politics and Religion

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The central claim of this article is that the multi-dimensional changes in the modern family structure may be explained as a manifestation of the simultaneous processes of secularization and religionization. On the one hand, the rising acceptance of secular alternatives to the traditional family structure indicates that modernization processes weaken religious behavior and authority, as the classical secularization thesis has claimed. On the other hand, ongoing loyalty to the religious family patterns, and even their relative intensification, reflect the opposite trend. Serving as a case study, the changes in the Israeli religious family structure — reflected by civil marriage, cohabitation, and out-of-wedlock children — clearly illustrate how modernization generates horizontal and vertical fragmental processes in which religion and secularism supplement as well as compete with each other, creating an increasingly divided society in which religiosity and secularism flourish side by side among various groups and within distinct realms.

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The 'Religionization' of Israeli Society

Cited by 33 publications

References 7 publications

The Spousal Covenant (Brit Hazugiut), or the Covenant with the Status Quo

The Spousal Covenant (Brit Hazugiut), or the Covenant with the Status Quo

Secularization of immigration policy vs. religion's influence on integration: Israel's non‐Jewish Jews' immigration in a comparative perspective

Fragmentary Theory of Secularization and Religionization — Changes in the Family Structure as a Case Study

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