In this article, the authors attempt to show what it means to think about democracy and education "within" society, culture, and religion. They use the term religion to discuss both "religion" as a social phenomena and "religiosity" as a spiritual, aesthetic individual commitment to the transcendent, eternal, and…

Points out that fire inscriptions, an institutional form of ephemeral art in Israeli youth movement ceremonials, have symbolic meaning and rhetorical effects rooted in secular European youth movement culture as well as in traditional Judaism. Considers that fire inscriptions symbolically mediate these two cultural strands and serve as…