The Religionisation of Israeli Society

Speakers: Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University; Horit Herman Peled, Tel Aviv University Chair: Amnon Aran, City, University of London Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled examine the growing saliency of the religious outlook in Jewish Israeli society, in order to test the argument that Israeli society is undergoing a process of religionisation. They also analyse the counter-argument, that secular–religious relations among Jews in Israel went into crisis in the 1980s and that the society had actually secularised during the 1990s. They seek to explain the causes and significance of these two processes and the seeming contradiction between them, as well as the variance in the trajectory of religionisation between different historical periods. Recorded on 16 November 2016. Image credit: Damir Janaev, Flickr. Jerusalem, 2015.