Religious Israeli Jews break the silence by performing forbidden discursive actions in a computer-mediated ‘troubles forum’

Bibliographic Data

ID12540685
AuthorsDavid Green (0000-0002-5571-5965, The Green Institute for Advanced Psychology and Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel), Irit Kupferberg (The Green Institute for Advanced Psychology and Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume26
Issue1
Pages115-131
Publication date2019-12-06
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIsrael Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-7121 • E-ISSN: 1743-9086
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13537121.2020.1697080
OpenAlexW2992378379
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

This article explores the construction of discursive actions and positioning of adult Israeli Jews who are renouncing their affiliation with religious Judaism and are seeking help in a secular computer-mediated ‘troubles forum’. Adopting the perspective of data-oriented discourse analysis and using content and figurative language analyses, the article shows that all participants, men and women, are performing a forbidden discursive action from the perspective of the religious world when they voice their emotions, thinking about and coping with the complex process of secularisation. It also shows that the participants frequently oscillate between the religious and secular worlds even when they have joined the secular society

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Discourse analysis · Islam · Judaism · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Media studies · Perspective (graphical · Secularism · Secularization · Silence · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Religious Studies

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