When the State Winks : : The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel / / Michal Kravel-Tovi.
Religious conversion is often associated with ideals of religious sincerity. But in a society in which religious belonging is entangled with ethnonational citizenship and confers political privilege, a convert might well have other motives. Over the last two decades, mass non-Jewish immigration to I...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion, Culture, and Public Life ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. The Naked Truth on Tel Aviv's Beaches
- Introduction. Taking Winking Seriously
- PART 1. THE CONVERSION MISSION
- ONE. National Mission
- TWO. State Workers
- PART 2. THE CONVERSION PERFORMANCE
- THREE. Legible Signs
- FOUR. Dramaturgical Entanglements
- FIVE. Biographical Scripts
- Epilogue. Winking Like a State
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index