A Portion of Animosity: The Politics of the Disestablishment of Religion in Israel

Edelman, Martin

doi:10.2979/isr.2000.5.1.204

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“…Income of the highest deciles is more than twelve times that of the lowest and infant mortality is up to four times higher in poor Jewish communities than in wealthy ones (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2003; Liebman, 1995; Swirsky and Konor‐Atias, 2003). Secular and religious Jews both feel that their lifestyle and values are not respected by the other group, and are even threatened by it (Edelman, 2000; Kimmerling, 1989).…”

Section: The Study and Its Rationalementioning

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Politics of God or Politics of Man? The Role of Religion and Deprivation in Predicting Support for Political Violence in Israel

2007

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This study examines the associations between religious affiliation and religiosity and support for political violence through a nationwide sample of Israeli Jews and Muslims. Based on structural equation modeling, the findings show that by and large Muslims are more supportive of political violence than Jews and more religious persons are less supportive of political violence. Deprivation, however, was found to mediate these relations, showing that the more deprived -whether Muslims or Jews, religious or non-religious persons -are more supportive of political violence. The explanatory strength of religion and deprivation combined in this manner was found to be stronger than any of these variables on their own. The findings cast doubt on negative stereotypes both of Islam and of religiosity as promoting political violence. They suggest that governments which want peace at home, in Israel as elsewhere, would do well to ensure that ethnic and religious differences are not translated into, and compounded by, wide socio-economic gaps.For many years scholars have been searching for explanations of political violence. The abundant factors examined to date range from biological to psychological, cultural, social and political issues. Favored explanations have varied in accordance with both research findings and social and political trends. Still, the view that religion leads to political violence resurfaced in the 1980s, and gained prominence in the 1990s and early 2000s. This claim has been tendered with respect to several different, though related and non-exclusive, forms of political violence: localized violence driven by religious-based intolerance (Beatty and Walter, 1984; The view that religion is a major source of political violence is underpinned by the many historical occasions on which political violence was explicitly carried out in the name of religion or religious values, from the Muslim conquests and Christian Crusades in the Middle Ages; the Spanish Inquisition and Europe's many religious wars from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century; to the more recent sectarian conflicts in Ireland and the Indian sub-continent and international terrorism explicitly carried out in the name of Islam.

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Politics of God or Politics of Man? The Role of Religion and Deprivation in Predicting Support for Political Violence in Israel

2007

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“…This reservation unites women, cutting across national and religious differences. It is more than possible that Israeli women's subordinate status under religious personal law (in particular marriage and divorce), which is sanctioned by the state, perpetuated by the lack of recognized civil alternatives and has a deep effect on their social and political status (Edelman, 2000;Yuval-Davis, 1985), has biased non-orthodox women against those who are perceived to uphold the religious status-quo. These differences, which need to be explored further, suggest that as Women's Studies migrate out of their Euro-American milieu researchers need to be aware of the effects variations in the local social and political scene may have on students' views and activities.…”

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‘I Carry Out Small Wars’: The Impact of Women's Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel

Halevi¹,

Blumen²

2005

Journal of Gender Studies

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This study examines the experiences of young Palestinian and Jewish women graduates of the Women's Studies program at an Israeli research university. Relying on in-depth semistructured interviews it finds that although most of the respondents registered in the program without a clear idea of what it was, most found their exposure to Women's Studies highly beneficial and enjoyable. All shared a strong sense of empowerment. This sense of empowerment fostered the formation of solidarity with other women. In practice, however, the expressions of empowerment and solidarity were limited mostly to the respondents' immediate social circle. Respondents identified two common issues around which future activity could be organized: equal employment, and a restructuring of the school schedule. The study concludes that despite fears, Women's Studies programs continue to play a crucial and formative role in feminist mobilization, presenting feminist ideas to a new generation of women, and planting the seeds for future feminist action.

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“…When the Israeli Supreme Court opted for a liberal judicial philosophy to instruct its judicial review authority over religious courts in Israel, it was unsurprising that it worked to restrict the jurisdictional authority of the rabbinical courts. 36 Being an illiberal, some would say even a coercive, jurisdictional authority, rabbinical jurisdiction was the antithesis of this judicial philosophy. 37 Consequently, the Israeli Supreme Court was in favor of restricting this jurisdictional authority rather than expanding it.…”

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Tainted Liberalism: Israel's Palestinian-Arab Millets

Karayanni¹

2015

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A Portion of Animosity: The Politics of the Disestablishment of Religion in Israel

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Politics of God or Politics of Man? The Role of Religion and Deprivation in Predicting Support for Political Violence in Israel

Politics of God or Politics of Man? The Role of Religion and Deprivation in Predicting Support for Political Violence in Israel

‘I Carry Out Small Wars’: The Impact of Women's Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel

Tainted Liberalism: Israel's Palestinian-Arab Millets

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