Women and Religious Change in Israel: Rebellion or Revolution

This paper examines three cases of conflict involving issues of gender and religious change in contemporary Israel. In all three cases women sought to enlarge women's role into what had traditionally been male domain. It is argued that in those two cases in which the two sides to the conflict c...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Sociology of religion 1997-04, Vol.58 (1), p.1-24
Main Author: Sered, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Changes
Females
Feminism
Gender roles
Israel
Jewish law
Jewish women
Jews
Judaism
Men
Political activity
Political revolutions
Prayer
Rabbis
Rebellion
Religion
Religious symbolism
Roles
Sex Roles
Social Change
Social Conflict
Sociology
Sociology of religion
Women
Women and religion
Women in Judaism
Women, Jewish
Womens Rights
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This paper examines three cases of conflict involving issues of gender and religious change in contemporary Israel. In all three cases women sought to enlarge women's role into what had traditionally been male domain. It is argued that in those two cases in which the two sides to the conflict could agree to redefine the conflict as concerning secular rather than sacred matters, the conflict was fairly easily resolved and even very traditional religious groups were able to accommodate the change. In the third case, despite the attempt of the women seeking change to present their demands as “rebellion” rather than “revolution,” religious traditionalists perceived the proposed change as striking at the theological heart of Judaism and thus violently opposed the change.
ISSN:1069-4404
1759-8818
DOI:10.2307/3712103