Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled examine the growing saliency of the religious outlook in Jewish Israeli society, in order to test the argument that Israeli society is undergoing a process of religionisation. They also analyse the counter-argument, that secular–religious relations among Jews in Israel went into crisis in the 1980s and that the society had actually secularised during the 1990s.
They seek to explain the causes and significance of these two processes and the seeming contradiction between them, as well as the variance in the trajectory of religionisation between different historical periods.
Event Details
Speakers: Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University; Horit Herman Peled, Tel Aviv University
Date: Wednesday 16 November 2016
Time: 18:00-19:30
Event Hashtag: #LSEPeled
Location: Room 9.04, Clement's Inn, Tower 2, LSE
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Speakers
Yoav Peled is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include citizenship and ethnic politics in Israel, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Horit Herman-Peled is a Tel Aviv media artist and peace activist. She teaches digital art and theory of digital culture at the Art Institute at Oranim College in Israel.