Description
Book SynopsisSecularism, Education, and Emotions: Cultural Tensions in Hebrew Palestine (18821926) aims to explore the sources of secularism, its social and emotional significances, its various expressions, and its thorny frictions with different religious environments during the first decades of modern settlement of Jews in Eretz-Israel (Palestine). Accordingly, this book develops four main concepts about secularism in Eretz-Israel: (1) Secularism was, in large part, a reaction against religion; (2) Secularism was not an isolated local occurrence but rather a product of the wider European cultural stage, influenced by ideas of contestation against religious dominance and nascent nationalism; (3) Secularism was essentially an emotional phenomenon in Europe and in Eretz-Israel likewise; (4) In the struggle between religious and secularists in Eretz-Israel, education occupied a major place as the main vehicle for the promotion of ideas.
Utilizing these four main concepts, Yair Seltenreich
Table of ContentsContent: Religion in European culture – Secularism in European culture – Jewish secularism – Zionist secularism – Yishuv secularism – Secularists and religious in Yishuv society – Education, secularism and religion in Eretz-Israel – The struggle for preservation of religious education – Religion in the Galilee
moshavot – The secular teacher in Galilee
moshava – Religious struggles in the
moshavot.
