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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1. VerfasserIn: Lehmann, David (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Review
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Univ. Press 2010
In: Sociology of religion
Jahr: 2010, Band: 71, Heft: 4, Seiten: 486-487
Rezension von:Yeshiva fundamentalism (New York : New York University Press, 2009) (Lehmann, David)
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1759-8818
Enthält:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq058