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Is Israel One? : Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism Confounded.
Title:
Is Israel One? : Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism Confounded.
Author:
Ben-Rafael, Eliezer.
ISBN:
9781433704666
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (347 pages)
Contents:
List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Section I. Cleavages and Multiculturalism -- Chapter One. Identity, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism -- Chapter Two. The Social and Cultural Landscape of Israel -- Section II. Religion and Social (Dis)order -- Chapter Three. The Ultra-Orthodox in the City -- Chapter Four. Settlers as a Cleavage -- Section III. Sociocultural Divisions -- Chapter Five. Mizrahim and Ashkenazim -- Chapter Six. Russian Immigrants -- Chapter Seven. Ethiopian Jews -- Section IV. Non-Jewish Groups -- Chapter Eight. Arabs and Druze in Israel -- Chapter Nine. Foreign Workers: The Case of the Filipinos -- Section V. Conflictual Multiculturalism -- Chapter Ten. The Configuration of Multiculturalism -- Chapter Eleven. Rules of Multiculturalism -- Chapter Twelve. Identity and National Politics -- Section VI. Horizons and Uncertainties -- Chapter Thirteen. Cleavages Transformed -- Chapter Fourteen. Multiculturalism and the Pursuit of Meanings -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book delves into Israeli society-an emblematic example of multiculturalism-where internal divides emerge from value systems relating contrastingly to religion, in a context of globalization, immigrant-society behavior, and a deep majority-minority division.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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