Yeshiva fundamentalism : piety, gender, and resistance in the ultra-Orthodox world / / Nurit Stadler.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xviii, 197 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: redefining male piety and fundamentalism
  • Yeshiva fundamentalism in Israel's Haredi community
  • On the edge of transgression: the study of Talmud and the evil inclination
  • Challenges to the fundamentalist denouncement of work
  • The idealization of soldiers' masculinity
  • The domestication of masculine piety
  • A case study: terror, ZAKA, and the "soldiers of piety"
  • Conclusion: a reconstruction of fundamentalism and piety.