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Title

• חילוניות מאמינות : סוציולוגיה של אמונה בנוף החילוני בישראל / הגר להב.
• Ḥiloniyot maʼaminot : sotsyologyah shel emunah ba-nof ha-ḥiloni be-Yiśraʼel / Hagar Lahav.

Author

• להב, הגר.
• Lahav, Hagar

Publication

• בני ברק : מכון ון ליר בירושלים : הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2021.
• Bene Beraḳ : Mekhon Ṿan Lir bi-Yerushalayim : ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʼuḥad, 2021.

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Additional Authors

• מכון ון ליר בירושלים.
• Mekhon Ṿan Lir bi-Yerushalayim.

Description

236 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Women, Secularism and Belief is an original and groundbreaking book that traces the supposed "anomaly" of secular believers by combining the knowledge areas of sociology, Jewish and Christian theology, religion studies, and feminist thought. The book points out the relatively large extent of the phenomenon (according to a rough estimate, about one-quarter of the Jewish population in Israel consists of secular believers), identifies new feminist voices of women secular believers, and brings their stories to the fore. It demonstrates convincingly that secular belief is not a social anomaly. Instead, it is a component of identity that is quite common in Israel but has not been studied until now because of the uncritical clinging to the customary epistemic assumptions, primarily the assumption that religion and secularism, or belief and secularism, are contrary categories. Beyond the richness of the narrative, the book offers a new theoretical framework that combines sociology and secularism (in which secularism is not a default or an empty category) and the sociology of belief (in which belief is not only a religious phenomenon) and emphasizes the gendered aspects of the phenomenon and their implications. All these delineate a nascent possibility of Jewish postsecular and feminist theological thought in Israel.

Series Statement

• סדרת הקשרי עיון וביקורת
• Sidrat Heḳshere ʻiyun u-viḳoret

Uniform Title

• סדרת הקשרי עיון וביקורת.
• Sidrat Heḳshere ʻiyun u-viḳoret.

Alternative Title

Women, secularism and belief : a sociology of belief in the Jewish-Israeli secular landscape

Subject

• Judaism and secularism > Israel
• Secularism > Israel
• Women > Religious life > Israel
• Religion and sociology > Israel
• Women and religion > Israel
• Faith > Social aspects > Israel
• Postsecularism > Israel
• Femmes > Vie religieuse > Israël
• Sociologie religieuse > Israël
• Femmes et religion > Israël
• Foi > Aspect social > Israël
• Judaism and secularism
• Religion and sociology
• Secularism
• Women and religion
• Women > Religious life
• Israel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-224) and index.

ISBN

• 9789650210731
• 9650210733

LCCN

003100067539

OCLC

• on1288454784
• 1288454784

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries