TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubin,Nissan
TI  - New Rituals—Old Societies: Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel 
T2  - Judaism and Jewish Life
SN  - 9781934843352
AV  - DS112 .R83 2009
U1  - 296.3/82095694 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Israel
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; PART ONE. RITES AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE --; CHAPTER ONE. SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MOURNING: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH --; CHAPTER TWO. UNOFFICIAL MEMORIAL RITES IN AN ARMY UNIT --; PART TWO. RITES AND CIVIL RELIGION: INVENTION OF TRADITION --; CHAPTER THREE. ETHNIC CIVIL RELIGION: A CASE STUDY OF IMMIGRANTS FROM RUMANIA IN ISRAEL --; CHAPTER FOUR. DEATH CUSTOMS IN A NON-RELIGIOUS KIBBUTZ: THE USE OF SACRED SYMBOLS IN A SECULAR SOCIETY --; CHAPTER FIVE. PERSONAL BEREAVEMENT IN A COLLECTIVE ENVIRONMENT: MOURNING IN THE KIBBUTZ --; PART THREE. PERSONAL DEFENITIONAL RITES: CHANGING ONE’S IDENTITY --; CHAPTER SIX. FROM FAT TO THIN: INFORMAL RITES AFFIRMING IDENTITY CHANGE --; CHAPTER SEVEN. FORMAL AND INFORMAL RETIREMENT RITES IN THE ISRAELI ARMY --; REFERENCES --; GENERAL INDEX --; AUTHORS INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises. There are crises which beset individuals in modern and post-modern society which are not easily addressed by traditional rituals. However, rites have not disappeared in contemporary society, but have merely changed their guise. New Rituals - Old Societies examines rituals which were invented by individuals and communities in order to celebrate important turning points. In contemporary Israel a process of innovation of new rituals was introduced, either by the adoption of ritual elements from outside sources or by the transformation of existing Jewish symbols through the infusion of new contents originating in secular ideology. The term "personal definitional rites" coined here refers to rites carried out by individuals undergoing a change in identity. Structural analysis supplies an additional dimension to this collection of studies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618110800
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618110800
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781618110800/original
ER  -