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Cover -- Finding Meaning -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I -- 1. The Israeli Scene As A Case Study Of Processes Of Search For Meaning In Life In A Post-modern And Globalized World -- Part Ii -- 2. The Meaning Of Life Through Israeli Eyes: Happiness And Creativity In The Restless Start-up Nation -- 3. Multitopia: Searching For Meaning In The Rothschild Encampment During The Summer 2011 Social Protest -- 4. Yearning For Meaning: Israeli Terror Casualties' Families Community And The National Bereavement Discourse -- Part Iii 5. In Search Of Meaning And Holy Redemption: The Case Of The Hilltop Youth In The Occupied West Bank -- 6. The Meaning Of Denial: Lessons From Immortality Dreams -- 7. Aging In The Shadow Of Trauma: Meaning In Life As A Resource For Older Adults In Israel -- 8. In Search For Meaning Through Survivors' Memoirs: Intergenerational Healing Processes In Families Of Holocaust Survivors In The Israeli Context -- Part Iv -- 9. The Zionist Absurd: Israel's Politics Of Fear, Freedom, And Bad Faith -- 10. Cultural Scripts, Personal Meaning, And Ethno-class Identities Among Jews In Israel 11. On Secular And Religious Politics Of Belonging: What Does It Mean To Be An Arab-palestinian Citizen In Israel? -- 12. The Quest For Meaning And Fulfillment Among Haredi Women In Israel -- 13. Transcending Locality: From Embodied Meaning To Universal Identification In Vipassana Meditation Practice In Israel -- Part V -- 14. Contemporary Spirituality In Israel: The Search For Meaning And The Privatization Of Judaism Following The Decline Of The Secular Zionist Meta-narrative 15. Judaism Is The New Orient: How Experiencing The Far East Helps Israelis Find Meaning In Their Jewish Tradition -- 16. Jewish Spiritualization As Meaning Injection: An Ethnography Of A Rabbinic Seminar In The Israeli Military -- 17. Religious Sense-making, Purpose-making, And Significance-making Among Jewish, Druze, And Muslim Young Adults In Israel -- Part Vi -- 18. Meaning In Life