Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy: Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>Teshuva</i> Movement in Israel
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 <i>teshuva</i> movement...
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| description | 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 <i>teshuva</i> movement. We will look at the encounter between the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>teshuva</i> 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 <i>teshuva</i> 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 <i>teshuva</i> movement activists and the local synagogue congregations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-646cb49a707c44699146d907d8ae78202023-12-01T00:17:38ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442023-01-011418910.3390/rel14010089Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy: Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>Teshuva</i> Movement in IsraelNissim Leon0The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5211401, IsraelThis 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 <i>teshuva</i> movement. We will look at the encounter between the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>teshuva</i> 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 <i>teshuva</i> 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 <i>teshuva</i> movement activists and the local synagogue congregations.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/1/89religious revival movementsethnicityUltra-OrthodoxyMizrachimTeshuvaIsrael |
| spellingShingle | Nissim Leon Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy: Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>Teshuva</i> Movement in Israel Religions religious revival movements ethnicity Ultra-Orthodoxy Mizrachim Teshuva Israel |
| title | Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy: Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>Teshuva</i> Movement in Israel |
| title_full | Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy: Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>Teshuva</i> Movement in Israel |
| title_fullStr | Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy: Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>Teshuva</i> Movement in Israel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy: Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>Teshuva</i> Movement in Israel |
| title_short | Soft Ultra-Orthodoxy: Revival Movement Activists, Synagogue Communities and the Mizrahi-Haredi <i>Teshuva</i> Movement in Israel |
| title_sort | soft ultra orthodoxy revival movement activists synagogue communities and the mizrahi haredi i teshuva i movement in israel |
| topic | religious revival movements ethnicity Ultra-Orthodoxy Mizrachim Teshuva Israel |
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