Yuval Jobani, Nahshon Perez

Women of the Wall

Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Women of the Wall are leading a groundbreaking struggle to gain the Israeli authorities' permission to pray according to their manner at Judaism's holiest prayer site, the Western Wall. This book is the first comprehensive academic study of their struggle, placing it in a comparative and theoretical context of wider religion-state conflicts and models.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780190280444
• ISBN-10: 0190280441
• Artikelnr.: 47864271

Autorenporträt

Yuval Jobani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies and School of Education at Tel-Aviv University. Nahshon Perez is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
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* Chapter 1 - Laying the Groundworks: Concepts, Definitions, and
Methodology.
* Chapter 2 - Women of the Wall in Focus: Examining the Various Aspects
of the WoW's Struggle.
* Chapter 3 - The Dominant Culture View and the Women of the Wall:
Competing Significances, Elusive Tradition, and Inegalitarianism.
* Chapter 4 - Evenhandedness, Thick Sites, and the Women of the Wall:
Permissible but Inapplicable?
* Chapter 5 - Privatization, Thick Sites, and the Women of the Wall: A
Suggested Solution.
* Concluding Remarks
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* Appendix
* Thick Sites, 'Gag Solutions', and the Ayodhya Dispute.
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* Index