Finding meaning : an existential quest in post-modern Israel / edited by Ofra Mayseless and Pninit Russo-Netzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayseless, Ofra, 1953- editor.

Russo-Netzer, Pninit, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Psychology)--Israel.

Meaning (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This text implements a conceptual framework for examining the post-modern, sociocultural Israeli scene that facilitates and triggers a search for meaning among its contemporary citizens. It combines theory, data, and illustrative case studies to unravel a variety of significant and fundamental manifestations of this quest as it is seen under existential duress.

Contents:

cover

Finding Meaning

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Part I

1. The Israeli Scene as a Case Study of Processes of Search for Meaning in Life in a Post-​Modern and Globalized World

Part II

2. The Meaning of Life Through Israeli Eyes: Happiness and Creativity in the Restless Start-​Up Nation

3. Multitopia: Searching for Meaning in the Rothschild Encampment During the Summer 2011 Social Protest

4. Yearning for Meaning: Israeli Terror Casualties' Families Community and the National Bereavement Discourse

Part III

5. In Search of Meaning and Holy Redemption: The Case of the Hilltop Youth in the Occupied West Bank

6. The Meaning of Denial: Lessons from Immortality Dreams

7. Aging in the Shadow of Trauma: Meaning in Life as a Resource for Older Adults in Israel

8. In Search for Meaning Through Survivors' Memoirs: Intergenerational Healing Processes in Families of Holocaust Survivors in the Israeli Context

Part IV

9. The Zionist Absurd: Israel's Politics of Fear, Freedom, and Bad Faith

10. Cultural Scripts, Personal Meaning, and Ethno-​Class Identities Among Jews in Israel

11. On Secular and Religious Politics of Belonging: What Does It Mean to Be an Arab-​Palestinian Citizen in Israel?

12. The Quest for Meaning and Fulfillment Among Haredi Women in Israel

13. Transcending Locality: From Embodied Meaning to Universal Identification in Vipassana Meditation Practice in Israel

Part V

14. Contemporary Spirituality in Israel: The Search for Meaning and the Privatization of Judaism Following the Decline of the Secular Zionist Meta-​Narrative

15. Judaism Is the New Orient: How Experiencing the Far East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in Their Jewish Tradition

16. Jewish Spiritualization as "Meaning Injection": An Ethnography of a Rabbinic Seminar in the Israeli Military.

17. Religious Sense-​Making, Purpose-​Making, and Significance-​Making Among Jewish, Druze, and Muslim Young Adults in Israel

Part VI

18. Meaning in Life at the Crossroads of Personal Processes and Cultural Crisis

Index

00_Chap 01_Maysless_updated.pdf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-091037-2

0-19-091038-0

0-19-091036-4

OCLC:

1260172472