Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel
The author examines the varieties of religious and secular salvation that have recently appeared in Israel as evidence for Israelis' willingness to embrace private salvation in the face of immense cultural upheavals. Drawing on interviews, field observations, clinical data, and media reports collected over ten years, he surveys four roads to private salvation: the return to Judaism, new religions (sects or cults), psychotherapy movements such as est, and occultism. These dramatic forms of conversion are unique to Israeli society within the last decade, and Beit-Hallahmi provides a social history and social psychology of this transformation.
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Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel
The author examines the varieties of religious and secular salvation that have recently appeared in Israel as evidence for Israelis' willingness to embrace private salvation in the face of immense cultural upheavals. Drawing on interviews, field observations, clinical data, and media reports collected over ten years, he surveys four roads to private salvation: the return to Judaism, new religions (sects or cults), psychotherapy movements such as est, and occultism. These dramatic forms of conversion are unique to Israeli society within the last decade, and Beit-Hallahmi provides a social history and social psychology of this transformation.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780791496183 |
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Publisher: | State University of New York Press |
Publication date: | 02/01/2012 |
Series: | SUNY series in Israeli Studies |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 221 |
File size: | 390 KB |
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