1st Edition
Judaism and Collective Life Self and Community in the Religious Kibbutz
By Aryei Fishman
Copyright 2002
160 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining the relationship between Judaism as a religious culture and kibbutz life, this is a ground-breaking work in the research of Judaism. The book takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European counterparts, who successfully developed religious kibbutz life. Employing sociological concepts and methods,... Read more
Introduction
1. Two Types of Religious Man
2. Two Stages in Kibbutz Evolution
3. The Positivist Temper of Torah-im-Derekh Eretz
4. The Hasidic Ethos of HaPoel HaMizrahi
5. The Two Strands of the Religious Kibbutz in Formation
6. The Psychic Collective of the Religious Kibbutz
7. The Psychic Collective Encounters Commune Reality^8. The Halakhic-Socialist Collective: the Religious Kibbutz and Moses Hess
9. An Evolutionary-Functional Perspective _
1. Two Types of Religious Man
2. Two Stages in Kibbutz Evolution
3. The Positivist Temper of Torah-im-Derekh Eretz
4. The Hasidic Ethos of HaPoel HaMizrahi
5. The Two Strands of the Religious Kibbutz in Formation
6. The Psychic Collective of the Religious Kibbutz
7. The Psychic Collective Encounters Commune Reality^8. The Halakhic-Socialist Collective: the Religious Kibbutz and Moses Hess
9. An Evolutionary-Functional Perspective _
Biography
Professor Aryei Fishman was a member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, until his retirement. His special interests in the sociologies of religion and communal societies converged in his in-depth study of the religious kibbutz. He is the author of Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz, Cambridge University Press, 1992).
