TITLE:
Intermarriage among Druze Men
AUTHORS:
Janan Faraj Falah, Janan Faraj Falah, Janan Faraj Falah
KEYWORDS:
Intermarriage, Mixdness, Druze, Males, Israel
JOURNAL NAME:
Sociology Mind,
Vol.9 No.4,
September
30,
2019
ABSTRACT: In cases of intermarriage, both spouses profess
different religions. For 50 years, this trend is rising constantly; naturally,
it has not skipped the Druze community, even though its religious laws prohibit
intermarriage, up to the point of being outcast from the community. The current
study focuses on the extent of adjustment to the other society from the
perspective of the Druze married men. The study is made by the qualitative method, the data is gathered through interviews
of 5 Druze men, who are married to non-Druze women. The findings indicate that
young Druze men meet their non-Druze spouses in the course of working in the
city or during their military service. After being married, the Druze men
integrate in the new culture, at the same
time of being outcast from their Druze family. Over time, they experience
disillusionment and enter the phase of
nostalgia, yet, they cannot come back home as long as they are married to
non-Druze women. The third phase is the phase of integrating between the
identities or assimilating the two previous phases, if this phase is not
completed properly, the Druze man would leave his
non-Druze wife and children at a later age and would try to return to his Druze
family and village, or would remain outcast
forever.