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Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
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Do Palestinian Lives Matter in Teacher Education?
Critical EducationMany self-proclaimed “social justice” teacher educators remained silent on Palestine prior to, during and following October 7th, 2023, citing ‘not knowing enough about the conflict’ to absolve themselves of the responsibility of addressing the genocide ...
Lilly Padía
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do religious minorities proactively manage their safety amid global crises and local hostility? This article examines these dynamics, conceptualized as “vernacular security governance,” among Jewish and Muslim populations in four European states.
Tahir Abbas +3 more
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Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2021 This article discusses the establishment of the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem in 1951. My claim is that the missionary plan of the Swedish Mission to the Jews was mitigated towards a programme of biblical studies.
Håkan Bengtsson
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Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Anti-Zionism: Discrimination and Political Construction
ReligionsThis article argues that from the end of the 19thcentury, the debate about anti-Semitism became a marker for a wider dispute focusing on the meaning of national identity.
Alberto Spektorowski
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Journal of Social Studies, 2021 Indonesia, as one of the largest majority Muslim countries, has had a consistent stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict since its inception. Despite the general pro-Palestinian stance, this article explores the discourse of three significant leaders of ...
Hasnan Bachtiar +2 more
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Israel's Relations with Emerging African States
Journal of Central and Eastern European African StudiesIsrael developedits relations with African countries relatively early. The initial boom in the 1950s was followed by a slowdown in the 1960s and then, in many respects, a standstill after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Attila Novák
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