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Among the issues examined are the characteristics that link fundamentalist movements within various religious traditions, the study of fundamentalist motifs as they appear specifically in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the relationship between religion and modernity, the impact of fundamentalism on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the interaction of modern Jewish fundamentalist movements with traditional Judaism. The book also aims to provide...

In this volume, an international group of scholars, from fields such as religious studies, sociology, political science, history and anthropology explores diverse dimensions of religious fundamentalism and relates it to a range of cultural and political issues. The main focus is on Judaism.

Moore focuses on Buber's central message about what it means to be a human being, a person of faith, and what mankind can do to overcome the eclipse of God."--"Shofar" "Solid, well researched, and sympathetic . might well spur a person to go back and read Buber." --"Commonwealth

This text explores the ways Jews have defined other groups and themselves. Topics include: the construction of gender, the gentile as Other, the Palestinian as Other, blacks as Other in American Jewish literature, the Jewish body image as symbol of Otherness, and women as Other in Israeli cinema.

Is Jewish identity flourishing or in decline? Community leaders and scholarly researchers continually seek to determine the attitudes, beliefs, and activities that best measure Jewish identity. At issue, according to these studies, is the very survival of the Jewish community itself. But such studies rarely ask what actually is being examined when we attempt to assess "Jewish identity" or any identity. Most tend to assume that identity is a pr...

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Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness, which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in deep-rooted traditions of inclusion and exclusion that permeate the culture's literature, religion, and politics. This volume explores the ways in which Jews have traditionally defined other groups and, in turn, themselves. The contributors, a distinguis...

A group of international scholars, applying insights drawn from history, folklore, political anthropology, historiography, cultural criticism and literary theory, re-examines critical issues surrounding the birth of Israel.

The struggle for postzionism is a conflict over national memory and the control of cultural and physical space. Laurence J. Silberstein analyzes the phenomenon of postzionism and provides an intervention into this debate.

Postzionism is a term increasingly used in Israeli public culture to refer to those who challenge zionism's hegemony. This is the first book to discuss and analyze the debates over post-zionism that go to the heart of Israeli national identity and culture. Applying a framework drawn from contemporary cultural studies, postcolonial studies and the writings of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, "The Postzionism Debates" considers the arguments of t...