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Ethnographic fieldwork in Israel provides deep insight into the conversion process and institutional dynamics
Focuses on the interplay between state policy and individual conversion experiences for a fresh theoretical perspective
Examines the tensions between official religiosity and secular Jewish populations in Israeli society
Highlights the concept of 'winking' as a mechanism of state and citizen coexistence in religious institutions
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When the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection between religious conversion and the natio
