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SUMMARY:Departmental Seminar: The Religionization of Israeli Society - Pro
 fessor Yoav Peled\, Tel Aviv University & Horit Herman Peled
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CONTACT:Helen Williams
DESCRIPTION:There is general agreement that Jewish Israeli society is unde
 rgoing a process of religionization\, manifested in a growing saliency of 
 religious personalities\, religious themes\, and the religious outlook in 
 public life. Professor Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled seek to explain t
 he causes and significance of this process by looking at the two key aspec
 ts of it: (1) the increasing presence and influence of religious Zionists 
 in various areas of social life – politics\, the military\, education\, 
 mass media – with particular attention to the field of visual arts\; (2)
  rising religiosity among Israeli Jews who previously considered themselve
 s to be secular or traditional. Both processes\, they will argue\, are roo
 ted in the decline of Labor Zionism's hegemonic position due to the transf
 ormation of Israeli society since 1967.\n\n*Professor Yoav Peled* is Profe
 ssor Emeritus of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and in 2016–20
 17 a Leverhulme Professorial Fellow in the School of Global Studies at the
  University of Sussex. His book\, co-authored with Gershon Shafir\, _Being
  Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship_ (Cambridge University Pres
 s\, 2002) won the 2002 Albert Hourani Award of the Middle East Studies Ass
 ociation of North America for best book in Middle East studies published t
 hat year. He is co-author\, with Horit Herman Peled\, of _The Religionizat
 ion of Israeli Society_ (Routledge\, forthcoming ) and co-editor\, with Jo
 hn Ehrenberg\, of _Israel and Palestine: Alternative Perspectives on State
 hood_ (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2016). He is also a member of the editoria
 l boards of Ethnic and Racial Studies and of Citizenship Studies.\n\n*Hori
 t Herman Peled* is a media artist\, activist and educator. Her work deals 
 with the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and with life under
  a 'state of exception.' Her video\, Violin Player at the Checkpoint - gen
 erated a world-wide debate over the morality of checkpoints and of the occ
 upation itself.\n
LOCATION:Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, University of 
 Cambridge\, Cambridge CB3 9DT
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