Religion, War and Israel’s Secular Millennials: Being Reasonable?

This is the first book to analyse blowback to Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli religious nationalism among this group in their own words, based on fieldwork, interviews and surveys conducted after the 2014 Gaza War.

Offering a close reading of the lived experience and generational memory of participants, Stacey Gutkowski draws on her recent book to offer a new explanation for why attitudes to Occupation have grown increasingly conservative over the past two decades. Examining the intimate emotional ecology of Occupation, this book offers a new argument about neo-Romantic conceptions of citizenship among this group. Beyond the case study, Religion, War and Israel’s Secular Millennials: Being Reasonable? Dr Gutowski’s book also provides a new theoretical framework and research methods for researchers and students studying emotion, religion, nationalism, secularism and political violence around the world.

Dr Stacey Gutkowski is a Senior Lecturer in Conflict Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research analyses peace, conflict, religion and the secular across the Arab world and Israel. She co-edits the book series Religion and its Others: Studies in Religion, Nonreligion and Secularity and is former co-Director of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (2008-20).

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