Singlehood and Religion

The Case of Israeli Religious Zionist Singles

Ari Engelberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2033-8 (ISBN)

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This book examines prolonged singlehood in Religious Zionist society, a community that upholds conservative family values. Engelberg argues that late modern individualization processes, including changing attitudes toward gender, relationships, and intimacy, play a central role in creating this phenomenon and in communal responses to it.

Many Western societies have seen the age of marriage rising in late modern times. While conservative religious denominations often decry gender egalitarianism and liberal society's sexual norms for contributing to this development, many individuals belonging to such denominations are still part of this trend. This book focuses on one such group, Israeli Religious Zionists. Drawing on ethnographic research, Ari Engelberg explains why the numbers of Religious Zionist singles have risen, describes how these adults deal with social marginalization and spiritual challenges, and how the community leadership has responded. On a theoretical level, the book exposes the role that intimacy plays in late modern individualization processes and at the same time offers an in-depth view of Religious Zionist “lived religion”.

Ari Engelberg is senior lecturer at the Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Seeking a Soulmate

Chapter 1: Romantic Love and Marriage in Jewish History and Current Orthodoxy

Chapter 2: Singlehood and Gender Relations

Chapter 3: Religious Zionist Dating: Seeking Intimacy in a Consumer Culture

Part 1 2: Religious Zionist communities and singles

Chapter 4: Societal Scripts of "The Good Life" and Religous Singles Narratives

Chapter 5: Singles, Social Networks, and Communities

Part 3: Singles Religious Observance and Faith

Chapter 6: Sex and Parties, Loneliness and Depression: Spiritual Challenges

Chapter 7: Dealing with Spiritual Challenges

Part 4 Responses to the "Singles Problem”

Chapter 8: Advice and ideology: How rabbis and layleaders attempt to assist singles

Conclusion: Individualization, Intimacy and Religion

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	26.10.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 242 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-6669-2033-9 / 1666920339
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-2033-8 / 9781666920338
Zustand	Neuware