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 Nynäs 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