Yeshiva Fundamentalism: Piety, Gender, and Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World
Ultra-Orthodox (or haredi) Judaism is a closed society and its leaders and institutions have developed effective defenses against the prying of journalists, social scientists, and even the police (at least in Israel). This makes Nurit Stadler's study unique, for she has managed to persuade youn...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 486-487 |
| Review of: | Yeshiva fundamentalism (New York : New York University Press, 2009) (Lehmann, David)
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| Summary: | Ultra-Orthodox (or haredi) Judaism is a closed society and its leaders and institutions have developed effective defenses against the prying of journalists, social scientists, and even the police (at least in Israel). This makes Nurit Stadler's study unique, for she has managed to persuade young Torah students to recount their stories, and through them she has penetrated a world of doubts and anxieties. The book's thesis is that ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel contains serious inner tensions, and that these tensions are expressed in disparate pressures for change, especially from the young generation., The symptoms of change are revealed in the unhappiness expressed by the young students—usually in their late teens and early twenties—who talked to her. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq058 |