Finding Meaning

Part One: Introduction


1. The Israeli Scene as a Case Study of Processes of Search for Meaning in Life in a Post-modern and Globalized World
Ofra Mayseless and Pninit Russo-Netzer


Part Two: A Quilt of Perspectives of the Israeli scene: Start-Up Nation, Multicultural and Trauma and Bereavement Struck


2. The Meaning of Life through Israeli Eyes: Happiness and Creativity in the Restless Startup Nation
Eyal Doron

3. Multitopia: Searching for Meaning in the Rothschild Encampment during the Summer 2011 Social Protest
Hagar Hazaz-Berger

4. Yearning for Meaning: Israeli Terror Casualties' Families Community and the National Bereavement Discourse
Udi Lebel and Tzlil Ben-Gal


Part Three: Developmental Processes and Challenges in the Israeli Search for Meaning


5. In Search of Meaning and Holy Redemption: The Case of the Hilltop Youth in the Occupied West Bank
Samuel (Muli) Peleg

6. The Meaning of Denial: Lessons from Immortality Dreams
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

7. Aging in the Shadow of Trauma: Meaning in Life as a Resource for Older Adults in Israel
Amit Shrira, Yuval Palgi and Dov Shmotkin

8. In Search for Meaning through Survivors' Memoirs: Intergenerational Healing Processes in Families of Holocaust Survivors in the Israeli Context
Adi Duchin and Hadas Wiseman

Part Four: Struggling for Identity


9. The Zionist Absurd: Israel's Politics of Fear, Freedom and
Bad Faith Uriel Abulof

10. Cultural Scripts, Personal Meaning, and Ethno-Class Identities among Jews in Israel
Avihu Shoshana

11. On Secular and Religious Politics of Belonging: What Does it Mean to Be an Arab-Palestinian Citizen in Israel?
Ayman K. Agbaria, Mohanad Mustafa and Sami Mahajnah

12. The Quest for Meaning and Fulfillment among Haredi Women in Israel
Menachem Keren-Kratz

13. Transcending Locality: From Embodied Meaning to Universal Identification in Vipassana Meditation Practice in Israel
Michal Pagis

Part Five: Between Religiosity and Secularism


14. Contemporary Spirituality in Israel: The Search for Meaning and the Privatization of Judaism following the Decline of the Secular Zionist Meta-Narrative
Tomer Persico

15. Judaism is the New Orient - How Experiencing the Far-East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in their Jewish Tradition
Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro

16. Jewish Spiritualization as 'Meaning Injection': An Ethnography of a Rabbinic Seminar in the Israeli Military
Udi Lebel, Batia Ben-Hador and Uzi Ben-Shalom

17. Religious Sense-Making, Purpose-Making and Significance-Making among Jewish, Druze and Muslim Young Adults in Israel
Nurit Novis-Deutsch, Peter Nynaes and Sawsan Khier


Part Six: Conclusion


18. Meaning in Life at the Cross-Roads of Personal Processes and Cultural Crisis
Pninit Russo-Netzer and Ofra Mayseless

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