Editorial introduction : the study of religion in Israeli social science / Shlomo Deshen -- Sociological analyses of religion / Stephen Sharot -- Dimensions of Jewish religiosity / Peri Kedem -- Jewish civilization : approaches to problems of Israeli society / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- State ceremonies of Israel : Remembrance Day and Independence Day / Don Handelman and Elihu Katz -- Religious adherence and political attitudes / Yochanan Peres -- Religion in the Israeli discourse on the Arab-Jewish conflict / Shlomo Deshen -- Life tradition and book tradition in the development of ultraorthodox Judaism / Menachem Friedman -- Ultraorthodox Jewish women / Tamar El-Or -- Religious kibbutzim : Judaism and modernization / Aryei Fishman -- A mystic-messianic interpretation of modern Israeli history : the Six-Day War in the religious culture of Gush Emunim / Gideon Aran -- The religiosity of Middle Eastern Jews / Moshe Shokeid -- Secularization and the diminishing decline of religion / Hannah Ayalon, Eliezer Ben-Raphael, and Stephen Sharot -- Saints' sanctuaries in development towns / Eyal Ben-Ari and Yoram Bilu -- The religion of elderly oriental Jewish women / Susan Sered -- Hanukkah and the myth of the Maccabees in ideology and in society / Eliezer Don-Yehiya-- Death customs in a non-religious kibbutz / Nissan Rubin -- Americans in the Israeli reform and conservative denominations / Ephraim Tabory and Bernard Lazerwitz -- Religion and democracy in Israel / Charles S. Liebman.