Religion, Democracy and Israeli SocietyFirst Published in 1997. The essays in this volume are revisions, in some cases substantial, to the 1995 Sherman Lectures which the author delivered at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The Struggle Among Religious Zionists over the Issue of a Religious State | 37 |
A Case of Fundamentalism in Contemporary Israel | 57 |
Democracy and Religion in Israeli Society | 77 |
Religion Modernization and the Peace Process in Israel | 95 |
Index | 111 |
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Religion, Democracy and Israeli Society Professor of Political Science Charles S Liebman,C Liebman No preview available - 2016 |
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