On Religiosity and Super-religiosity (II)

The Case of Jewish Ultra-orthodoxy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9206367
AutoresGideon Aran (Department of Sociology & AnthropologyHebrew UniversityJerusalemIsrael, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen60
Número4
Páginas371-419
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNumen (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0029-5973 • E-ISSN: 1568-5276
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15685276-12341274
OpenAlexW1964779262
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

This is part two of my essay on super-religiosity. Though the two parts systematically relate to each other and are complementary, they can be read independently of one another. The first part, printed in the previous issue of Numen (vol. 60, issue 2–3, 2013) presented the analytic model of super-religiosity. The following presents a case study that is an illustration and test of the formerly published conceptual discussion and theoretical argument. The present part applies the idea of super-religiosity to the peculiar instance of Jewish ultra-orthodoxy. It is a comprehensive, methodic, and updated exposition of a particular super-religious society and culture. It focuses on the contemporary Israeli ultra-Orthodox known as Haredim. More precisely, this paper describes and analyzes the hard core of the Haredi group that manifests religious extremism. This examination of the Haredi case in terms of super-religiosity is applied towards an attempt at deconstructing and reevaluating the prevalent concepts of tradition, extremism, and fundamentalism

Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Exposition (narrative) · Fundamentalism · Islam · Judaism · Literature · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Sociology · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Social Psychology