Stacey Gutkowski - Religion, war and Israel’s secular millennials: Being reasonable?

Religion, war and Israels secular millennials

RELIGION, WAR AND ISRAELS SECULAR MILLENNIALS

Being reasonable?

Stacey Gutkowski

Manchester University Press

Copyright Stacey Gutkowski 2020

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ISBN 978 1 5261 3999 3 hardback

First published 2020

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A long project accrues great debt. I would like to thank: Orna Sasson-Levy and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar Ilan University for hosting me during fieldwork; John Levy and the Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East (UK) for sponsoring my first visit to Israel; Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan for hosting a 2015 visit; for helpful discussions at various stages: Joyce Dalsheim, Yaacov Yadgar, Guy Ben-Porat, Hagar Lahav, Menachem Klein, Yagil Levy, Stuart Cohen, George Wilkes, Daniel Langton, Nadia Fadil, Marina Sapritsky, Hanne Eggen Rislien, Callie Maidhof, James Eastwood, Samuli Schielke; audiences at University College London, University of Kent, Tbingen University, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Association of Israel Studies, European Association of Israel Studies, Heythrop College, University of Manchester, University of Zurich, University of Edinburgh, Kings College London; my colleagues at Kings College London past and present, particularly Craig Larkin for ongoing conversations on Palestinian society and politics, Simon Waldman for comments on the Introduction, and moral support from Michael Kerr, Mayssoun Sukarieh, Rory Miller and Hannes Baumann; successive cohorts of my students on the MA in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies; the Non-Religion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN), particularly Lois Lee for conversations about belief, methods and interview questions; research assistants Yael Friedman and Sebastian Andersson; Wellesley College alumnae in Israel and the USA; new friends for excellent company during fieldwork; members of civil society, including those affiliated with mechinot, cited anonymously; anonymous reviewers of this and other published work; Jon de Peyer and Rob Byron at Manchester University Press; family and friends, for long-standing, seemingly endless support. Finally, to my participants: thank you for your generous contribution of time, energy and generational memory.

Note: Unless otherwise specified, the source for tables is the fieldwork conducted by the author between 2014 and 2016.