Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Theocratic Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism

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Produktbeschreibung

In Theocratic Democracy, Nachman Ben-Yehuda examines more than fifty years of media-reported unconventional and deviant behavior by members of the Haredi community. Ben-Yehuda finds not only that this behavior has happened increasingly often over the years, but also that its most salient feature is violence--a violence not random or precipitated by situational emotional rage, but planned and aimed to achieve a theocratic society in Israel. He shows how the political structure that accommodates the strong theocratic and secular pressures Israel faces is effectively a theocratic democracy, allowing citizens with different worldviews to live under one umbrella of a nation-state without tearing the social fabric apart.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190208400
• Artikelnr.: 40712215

Autorenporträt

Nachman Ben-Yehuda is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a former Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Rezensionen

Theocratic Democracy is an excellent and deeply researched study of dissident religious subcultures, focusing on Israel's growing communities of ultra-Orthodox Jews. The book is hugely significant for understanding the future of the state of Israel, and of Judaism more generally. It also tells us much about the politics of religion and the nature of religious violence. This is a really impressive achievement. Philip Jenkins, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities, Pennsylvania State University