Finding meaning : an existential quest in post-modern Israel /
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Finding Meaning
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I
- 1. The Israeli Scene as a Case Study of Processes of Search for Meaning in Life in a Post-Modern and Globalized World
- Part II
- 2. The Meaning of Life Through Israeli Eyes: Happiness and Creativity in the Restless Start-Up Nation
- 3. Multitopia: Searching for Meaning in the Rothschild Encampment During the Summer 2011 Social Protest
- 4. Yearning for Meaning: Israeli Terror Casualties' Families Community and the National Bereavement Discourse
- Part III
- 5. In Search of Meaning and Holy Redemption: The Case of the Hilltop Youth in the Occupied West Bank
- 6. The Meaning of Denial: Lessons from Immortality Dreams
- 7. Aging in the Shadow of Trauma: Meaning in Life as a Resource for Older Adults in Israel
- 8. In Search for Meaning Through Survivors' Memoirs: Intergenerational Healing Processes in Families of Holocaust Survivors in the Israeli Context
- Part IV
- 9. The Zionist Absurd: Israel's Politics of Fear, Freedom, and Bad Faith
- 10. Cultural Scripts, Personal Meaning, and Ethno-Class Identities Among Jews in Israel
- 11. On Secular and Religious Politics of Belonging: What Does It Mean to Be an Arab-Palestinian Citizen in Israel?
- 12. The Quest for Meaning and Fulfillment Among Haredi Women in Israel
- 13. Transcending Locality: From Embodied Meaning to Universal Identification in Vipassana Meditation Practice in Israel
- Part V
- 14. Contemporary Spirituality in Israel: The Search for Meaning and the Privatization of Judaism Following the Decline of the Secular Zionist Meta-Narrative
- 15. Judaism Is the New Orient: How Experiencing the Far East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in Their Jewish Tradition
- 16. Jewish Spiritualization as "Meaning Injection": An Ethnography of a Rabbinic Seminar in the Israeli Military
- 17. Religious Sense-Making, Purpose-Making, and Significance-Making Among Jewish, Druze, and Muslim Young Adults in Israel
- Part VI
- 18. Meaning in Life at the Crossroads of Personal Processes and Cultural Crisis
- Index
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