Dani Schrire, Raphael Patai, Pierre Bourdieu, and the Rest of Us

[...]the habitus produces practices and representations which are available for classification, which are objectively differentiated; but they are immediately perceived as such only in the case of agents who possess the code, the classificatory model necessary to understand their social meaning. [...]the habitus implies a "sense of one's place" but also a sense of the other's place. In the 1930s, the humanities and social sciences at the Hebrew University engaged in scholarship that continued the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism) tradition; they were not prepared for the transformation of traditional faith into myth (Hasan-Rokem 1987). [...]it was the discipline that Patai espoused, rather than his own scholarly merit per se, that was rejected by the university. [...]history presents us with its own irony.