Hidden Heretics (eBook)

Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

Ayala Fader (Autor)

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2020
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20148-1 (ISBN)

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A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known? Hidden Heretics tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in twenty-first-century New York who lead "e;double lives"e; in order to protect those they love. While they no longer believe that God gave the Torah to Jews at Mount Sinai, these hidden heretics continue to live in their families and religious communities, even as they surreptitiously break Jewish commandments and explore forbidden secular worlds in person and online. Drawing on five years of fieldwork with those living double lives and the rabbis, life coaches, and religious therapists who minister to, advise, and sometimes excommunicate them, Ayala Fader investigates religious doubt and social change in the digital age.The internet, which some ultra-Orthodox rabbis call more threatening than the Holocaust, offers new possibilities for the age-old problem of religious uncertainty. Fader shows how digital media has become a lightning rod for contemporary struggles over authority and truth. She reveals the stresses and strains that hidden heretics experience, including the difficulties their choices pose for their wives, husbands, children, and, sometimes, lovers. In following those living double lives, who range from the religiously observant but open-minded on one end to atheists on the other, Fader delves into universal quandaries of faith and skepticism, the ways digital media can change us, and family frictions that arise when a person radically transforms who they are and what they believe.In stories of conflicts between faith and self-fulfillment, Hidden Heretics explores the moral compromises and divided loyalties of individuals facing life-altering crossroads.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abbreviation • Adviser • African American family • Age of Enlightenment • Alphabet • Anathema • anonymity • anthropologist • Anthropology of Religion • anti-internet rallies • Anusim • Ashkenazic Jewish Orthodoxy • asifes • Atheism • aufgeklert • author • Autobiography • banishment • Bar and Bat Mitzvah • Barbara Myerhoff • Batgirl • Becoming Unorthodox • Bible • Biblical • Biblical Criticism • Bleacher • Blog • Blogger (service) • Bobov (Hasidic dynasty) • Book of Moses • border • Chabad • Christianity and Islam • Citizenship • Clergy • closeted • Collaboration • commandments and prohibitions • Complicity • Complicity (novel) • Contradiction • crisis of emine • crisis of faith • critical thinking • Criticism • Cynicism (philosophy) • Deregulation • Discretion • discursive traditions • Disney's Beauty and the Beast (SNES video game) • district attorney • Doctrine • double lifers • DVD • Economic Power • Electronic Business • Émile Durkheim • emine kashes • emune • english alphabet • Ethical Dilemma • ethics • ethnography • evangelicalism • Everyday life • Excommunication • Explanation • exploration • Extended family • Facebook • fallacy • Fellow traveller • field research • First Book • fluency • Footsteps (organization) • frum • Gemara • Gemination • gentile • glitching • Guinea Pig • Haredi Judaism • Hasid • hasidic • Hasidic Judaism • Hasidic Rebel • Hasid (term) • Haskalah • haskule • Hebrew Alphabet • Hebrew language • Hebrew literature • Hella Winston • Heresy • His Family • hypocrisy • Ideology • Idiom • ILC • Infrastructure • Insider • Intellectual • interaction • interpersonal relationship • in the closet • In This World • Irreligion • Israel • Jblogger • Jewish bloggers • Jewish blogs • Jewish Enlighteners • Jewish Enlightenment • Jewish History • Jewish Languages • Jewish Orthodoxy • Jewish principles of faith • Jewish Studies • Jewish Theology • Jews • Judaism • Judeo-Arabic languages • Justin Bieber • kaylim • Keith Basso • kerchief • Kollel • kosher restaurant • koyfer • Language ideology • learning • Lecture • LGBT Community • Liberalism • Lighting • Literacy • Literature • lithuanian jews • Livelihood • Loyalty • Lynn Davidman • Man and Wife (novel) • maskilim • master's degree • Masturbation • matan toyre • material culture • memorization • Menachem Friedman • Mental disorder • mental health professional • Mindy Blumenthal • Mishnah • Mishpacha • Misnagdim • mitzvah • mitzves • modern Hebrew • Modernity • Modesty • Moral certainty • moral imperative • Morality • Moses • Movable Type • Mrs. • Ms. • Muff (handwarmer) • Music Video • narrative • Natan Slifkin • Negotiation • New Media • newspaper • Not Gay • Nuclear family • Number Our Days • Nurit Stadler • Obligation • Old Testament • oral law • Orthodox Judaism • Orthodoxy • Orthography • Outreach • Pamphlet • parental alienation • parenting • Parka • Parody • participant observation • Payment • Perversion • Philosopher • Pierre Bourdieu • piety • pity • Platitude • Poetry • Politics • Poverty • Precedent • proverb • Pseudonym • Pseudoscience • Psychoanalysis • Psychology • Publication • Purim • Question authority • Rabbi • rabbinic advisors • Rabbinic Judaism • rabbinic leaders • Rabbi Tessler • Rebbe • rebbes • Reform Judaism • Religion • Religiosity • religious exile • Religious Law • religious text • Requirement • result • Rosh Yeshiva • Sabbath • sacred language • Samuel Heilman • Satmar (Hasidic dynasty) • Scholarship • secrecy • sect • secular education • self-concept • sensibility • Sex Education • Sexting • Sexual Abuse • Shaky Ground • Sharing • Shtreimel • shul • Shulem Deen • Skirt • Small Business • Smartphone • Society of the United States • Spanglish • Spirituality • Spoken Language • spouse • state school • stopping by woods on a snowy evening • subtraction • Suffix • summer camp • Symptom • Synagogue • Talal Asad • Talmud • Tanya Luhrmann • Technology • Teknologia • Television • Their Lives • The New York Times • The Rebbe • the rules • Thought • Tikkun Olam • tip of the tongue • Tom Boellstorff • Torah study • Traditional authority • Transliteration • two women • ultra-Orthodox bloggers • ultra-Orthodox life coaches • Ultra-Orthodoxy • Uncertainty • Unchosen • Upstate New York • Whatsapp • When God Talks Back • wickedness • Wisdom Sits in Places • women’s studies • World to come • Writer • Writing • yayster hore • year • yeshiva • Yeshiva Fundamentalism • Yeshivish • Yid • Yiddish • Yiddish grammar • Yiddish orthography • Yinglish
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20148-X / 069120148X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20148-1 / 9780691201481