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Yeshiva fundamentalism : piety, gender, and resistance in the ultra-Orthodox world / Nurit Stadler.
LIBRA BM390 .S727 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stadler, Nurit.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ultra-Orthodox Jews--Israel.
- Ultra-Orthodox Jews.
- Jewish religious education of adults.
- Yeshivas.
- Jewish men.
- Religious life.
- Jewish fundamentalism.
- Israel.
- Orthodox Judaism--Israel.
- Orthodox Judaism.
- Jewish fundamentalism--Israel.
- Jewish men--Religious life.
- Yeshivas--Israel.
- Jewish religious education of adults--Israel.
- Spiritual life--Judaism.
- Spiritual life.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction: redefining male piety and fundamentalism
- Yeshiva fundamentalism in Israel's Haredi community
- On the edge of transgression: the study of Talmud and the evil inclination
- Challenges to the fundamentalist denouncement of work
- The idealization of soldiers' masculinity
- The domestication of masculine piety
- A case study: terror, ZAKA, and the "soldiers of piety"
- Conclusion: a reconstruction of fundamentalism and piety.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814740491
- 0814740499
- OCLC:
- 227931092
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