Journal Name:
- Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
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Abstract (Original Language):
Nachman1 Ben-Yehuda is a professor of sociology and anthropology at Hebrew
University in Israel. He has been primarily interested in deviance and
its impact on social and political life. In his study of Theocratic Democracy:
The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism, which
was the winner of the 2011 Distinguished Book Award from the Division
of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology, he
examines Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox Jews) extremism and violence as a form
of deviance and its impact on Israeli society and politics. He argues that
there have been serious changes in Israel society because of the increasing
impact of Haredi extremism and violence on Israeli polity. Particularly,
Israel has been transforming from a secular state to a theocratic state as
a result of Haredi challenge to the hegemonic secular Zionist status quo.
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