New Rituals-Old Societies

Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Focusing on the secular society of contemporary Israel, this collection of essays examines the way civil religion invents collective rites for turning points in community life, and personal definitional rites for ratification of identity change in the individual's life cycle.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-08-20
Mått155 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJudaism and Jewish Life
Antal sidor208
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781934843352

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Nissan Rubin (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University, 1977) is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University. His published books include: Research Methods in Social Science - Strategy, Design and Measurement. Tel-Aviv: Dekel, 1978 (with Ernest Krausz and Steven H. Miller), The Beginning of Life: Rites of Birth, Circumcision and Redemption of the First-Born in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad, 1995 The End of Life: Rites of Burial and Mourning in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha- Meuchad, 1988 and The Joy of Life: Rites of Betrothal and Marriage in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad, 2004

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. PART ONE: RITES AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE. Chapter One: Social Networks and Mourning: A Comparative Approach. Chapter Two: Unofficial Memorial Rites in an Army Unit. PART TWO: RITES AND CIVIL RELIGION: INVENTION OF TRADITION. Chapter Three: Ethnic Civil Religion: A Case Study of Immigrants from Rumania in Israel (with Rina Neeman). Chapter Four: Death Customs in a Non-Religious Kibbutz: The Use of Sacred Symbols in a Secular Society. Chapter Five: Personal Bereavement in a Collective Environment: Mourning in the Kibbutz. PART THREE: PERSONAL DEFINITIONAL RITES: CHANGING ONE’S IDENTITY. Chapter Six: From Fat to Thin: Informal Rituals of Identity Change (with Carmela Shmilovitz and Meira Weiss). Chapter Seven: Formal and Informal Retirement Rites in the Israeli Army (with Drora Peer). REFERENCES. General Index. Authors Index.