Framing religious conflict: Popular Israeli discourse on religion and state

Theodore Sasson, Ephraim Tabory, Dana Selinger-Abutbul

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)662-685
Number of pages24
JournalJournal of Church and State
Volume52
Issue number4
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StatePublished - Sep 2010

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THEODORE SASSON is associate professor in International Studies, Middlebury College and Senior Research Scientist, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University. He is author of Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem and co-author of The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America. His articles have appeared in Sociological Inquiry, Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Church and State, Israel Studies, Contemporary Jewry, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. Special interests include political sociology, diaspora studies and Israeli society. EPHRAIM TABORY is senior lecturer in sociology and director of the Program in Conflict Management and Negotiations, Bar Ilan University. He is co-author of Jewish Choices: American Jewish Denominationalism. His articles have appeared in Review of Religious Research, Sociology of Religion, Journal of Church and State, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Israel Studies. Special interests include religious denominations, religion-state relations, and intergroup relations. DANA SELINGER-ABUTBUL is a researcher at the Conflict Transformation Management Center, SHATIL, Israel. She earned her BA in Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University and her MA in Conflict Resolution from Tel Aviv University. This research was supported by the Middlebury College Long Term Professional Development Fund and the Brandeis University Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. We gratefully acknowledge the comments of Chaim I. Waxman and the anonymous reviewers of this journal on an earlier draft of this article.

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THEODORE SASSON is associate professor in International Studies, Middlebury College and Senior Research Scientist, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University. He is author of Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem and co-author of The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America. His articles have appeared in Sociological Inquiry, Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Church and State, Israel Studies, Contemporary Jewry, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. Special interests include political sociology, diaspora studies and Israeli society. EPHRAIM TABORY is senior lecturer in sociology and director of the Program in Conflict Management and Negotiations, Bar Ilan University. He is co-author of Jewish Choices: American Jewish Denominationalism. His articles have appeared in Review of Religious Research, Sociology of Religion, Journal of Church and State, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Israel Studies. Special interests include religious denominations, religion-state relations, and intergroup relations. DANA SELINGER-ABUTBUL is a researcher at the Conflict Transformation Management Center, SHATIL, Israel. She earned her BA in Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University and her MA in Conflict Resolution from Tel Aviv University. This research was supported by the Middlebury College Long Term Professional Development Fund and the Brandeis University Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. We gratefully acknowledge the comments of Chaim I. Waxman and the anonymous reviewers of this journal on an earlier draft of this article.

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Brandeis University Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
Middlebury College Long Term Professional Development Fund

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