Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy

Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi Teshuva Movement in Israel

Bibliographic Data

ID3387281
AuthorsNissim Leon (0000-0003-1919-977X, Bar-Ilan University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume14
Issue1
Pages89
Publication date2023-01-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel14010089
OpenAlexW4313889341
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited17

This article offers an in-depth ethnographic and historical description of how an ethnic-religious revival movement has had an impact on religious life. The article will focus on the story of one of Israeli's foremost religious revival movements-the Mizrahi-Haredi teshuva movement. We will look at the encounter between the Mizrahi-Haredi teshuva movement activists and Mizrahi synagogue congregations, and at the outcomes of that encounter on religious infrastructures, and on the activists' religious agenda. The following questions will be addressed: How did the relationship between the activists and the synagogue congregations develop? What tensions arose and how did they turn a strict religious outlook into a soft religious approach? The article is based on many years of fieldwork in congregations exposed to the impact of the Mizrahi-Haredi teshuva movement in Israel. The fieldwork provided both a rich ethnographic inventory and an opportunity to describe a historical trend that illuminates the communal, authoritative, and gender models that originated with the encounter between the Mizrahi-Haredi teshuva movement activists and the local synagogue congregations

Aesthetics · Ethnography · Feminism · Feminist movement · Orthodoxy · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies

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