{"id":57,"date":"2011-03-02T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/the-secular-israeli-jewish-identity-an-impossible-dream\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:32:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:32:01","slug":"the-secular-israeli-jewish-identity-an-impossible-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/the-secular-israeli-jewish-identity-an-impossible-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secular Israeli (Jewish) Identity: An Impossible Dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Professor of psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n

Certain similarities can be observed in secularization processes across societies. Secularization is always gradual and relative, moving continually to a pronounced decline in common religious beliefs and behaviors while maintaining\u00a0many rituals surrounding rites of passage. Life cycle rites, directly tied to individual identity, survive even in highly secularized societies. Individual claims to identity\u00a0labels (i.e. I am Catholic) often persist in the absence of any beliefs or behaviors. If religiosity is measured as a continuous variable, and an individual can be assigned\u00a0a score of zero to 100 based on commitment to religious beliefs and rituals, secular individuals are those with scores at or close to zero.<\/p>\n

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