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“We are born in each others' houses”: communal and patrilineal ideologies in Druze Village religion and social structure
Author(s) -
OPPENHEIMER JONATHAN W. S.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1980.7.4.02a00020
Subject(s) - ideology , sociology , gender studies , ethnic group , representation (politics) , politics , state (computer science) , social conflict , islam , doctrine , political science , anthropology , law , geography , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
Druze religion establishes an ideological representation of social reproduction in terms of Druze unity, religious initiation, the differential religious statuses of young men and old men and of men and women, and also in terms of a doctrine of transmigration of souls. This ideology is contradicted by political conflict which has its own ideological representation in patrilineal particularism. The paper considers the competition between these ideologies at the level of the village and in the relationship between the Druze people and the Israeli state. [Middle East religions, ideology and social structure, ethnicity, Druze religion, Palestinians, age and gender roles]