Aufsatz(gedruckt)2009

La cause laique en Israel est-elle perdue? Atouts, faiblesses et mutation

In: Critique internationale: revue comparative de sciences sociales, Heft 3, S. 65-80

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Abstract

Secular? Theocratic? The case of the Israeli state defies the usual categories & gives rise to much confusion; for this reason, it requires a nuanced approach. The secular cause is itself divided over the strategy to pursue. For moderates, the religious monopoly in the area of personal law must be broken by demanding, in particular, that civil marriage be made an option alongside religious marriage. For radicals, by contrast, arrangements of this type, however important they may otherwise be, only mask the intrinsic ambiguity that stems from the close ties between nation & religion (and not just between synagogue & state). After examining the political, cultural & demographic factors that have in recent decades given increased weight to religious forces in political & social life, one should take stock of the factors that provide a counterweight to religious expansion. These include the active intervention of the Supreme Court in religious affairs, the preponderance of a secular ethos shared by the economic, political & intellectual elites centered in Tel-Aviv & the presence of CIS immigrants -- a portion of whom are not Jewish according to religious criteria -- and immigrant workers who have long resided in Israel. Adapted from the source document.

Themen

Israel, Secularism, Immigrants, Intellectuals

Sprachen

Französisch

Verlag

Presses de Sciences Po, Paris France

ISSN: 1149-9818, 1290-7839

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