In this Book
- Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel
- Book
- 1992
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Israeli Studies
summary
The author examines the varieties of religious and secular salvation that have recently appeared in Israel as evidence for Israelis’ willingness to embrace private salvation in the face of immense cultural upheavals. Drawing on interviews, field observations, clinical data, and media reports collected over ten years, he surveys four roads to private salvation: the return to Judaism, new religions (sects or cults), psychotherapy movements such as est, and occultism. These dramatic forms of conversion are unique to Israeli society within the last decade, and Beit-Hallahmi provides a social history and social psychology of this transformation.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- 3 The Triumph of the Occult
- pp. 73-99
- 5 Crisis and the Search for Salvation
- pp. 133-159
- 6 Forming and Preserving the New Self
- pp. 161-183
- References
- pp. 195-217
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791496183
MARC Record
OCLC
42636900
Pages
221
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No