Fundamentalism's encounters with citizenship

TheHaredimin Israel

Bibliographic Data

ID4525540
AuthorsN Stadler (0000-0001-5945-7062, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), E Lomsky-Feder (0000-0002-6006-0414, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), E Ben-Ari (0000-0003-3559-4622, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Year2008
Volume12
Issue3
Pages215-231
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621020802015388
OpenAlexW2031629764
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited35

This paper centers on the challenge that fundamentalist groups – such as the Israeli ultra-Orthodox community (the Haredim) – pose for citizenship. It focuses on two issues: challenges centering on contribution to and sacrifice for the Israeli nation-state; and alternatives that fundamentalism poses to definitions of citizenship. Empirically, it is based on research in three arenas: service in the Israeli military; a voluntary organization aiding state agencies after terror attacks (ZAKA), and a charitable association offering help in health and social welfare (Yad Sarah). Two trends – challenges to concepts of security and the state, and the weakening of the state in the economic sphere and social services – have opened up spaces for fundamentalist groups to operate in civil society and complement the state. The Haredi community has gradually developed a new concept of inclusion that both fits the state-centred view of citizenship and their own fundamentalist perspective

Citizenship · Civil society · Fundamentalism · Inclusion (mineral) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare state · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Turkey's Politics and Society

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