Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse

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Yakir Englander, Avi Sagi, Erik H. Cohen

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Academic Studies Press
23 November 2015

Judaism; Judaism: life & practice

Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History

Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace, and considers such issues as homosexuality, lesbianism, masturbation, and the relationships between the sexes. It also analyzes the shift to a pastoral discourse and alternative religious perspectives dealing with this discourse together with its far wider social and cultural implications, offering a new paradigm for reading religious cultures.

By: Yakir Englander, Avi Sagi, Erik H. Cohen
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 333g
ISBN: 9781618114525
ISBN 10: 1618114522
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 23 November 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University as well as a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He has written and edited many books and articles in philosophy and Jewish thought, among them Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd, Jewish Religion after Theology, and Tradition vs. Traditionalism.

Reviews for Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse

In this exciting new book Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi break new ground in treating contemporary religious-Zionism in Israel as a community with particular religious and spiritual inclinations and a complex relationship to modernity. Focusing on religious and halakhic questions around the body and in particular sexual ethics, and including an important discussion of how the Internet has changed halakhic adjudication, Englander and Sagi argue that this community has integrated a personalistic dimension to sexual practices and approaches to the body. --Shaul Magid, Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University Numerous studies have shown how secular Zionism undertook a revolution with respect to sexuality and the body. But until now, no systematic work has examined religious-Zionism on these questions. Sagi and Englander's book not only reveals the dynamic way that religious-Zionism has created its own bodily revolution, but also how much contemporary religious discourse around sexuality owes to virtual Halakhah on the Internet. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of Orthodox Judaism today. --David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History, Chair, Department of History, University of California, Davis