Messianic Zionism In The Digital Age

Author : Rachel Z. Feldman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978828193

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Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age by Rachel Z. Feldman Pdf

Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to realize biblical prophecies, including the restoration of a Jewish theocracy and the construction of the third and final Temple on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Through groundbreaking ethnographic research, Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age details how Third Temple visions have gained considerable momentum and political support in Israel and abroad . The role of technology in this movement’s globalization has been critical. Feldman skillfully highlights the ways in which the internet and social media have contributed to the movement's growth beyond the streets of Jerusalem into communities of former Christians around the world who now identify as the Children of Noah (Bnei Noah). She charts a path for future research while documenting the intimate effects of political theologies in motion and the birth of a new transnational Judaic faith.

Author : Lea Taragin-Zeller
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781479817351

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The State of Desire by Lea Taragin-Zeller Pdf

"How does state policy shape our most intimate desires? This groundbreaking anthropological approach to the study of desire shows how Orthodox desires and their discontents are reshaped at the intersection of religion, reproduction and politics, highlighting how ethical choreographies between personal desire and the state emerge even in the most traditional settings"--

Author : Mark Ward Sr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216078210

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The Electronic Church in the Digital Age by Mark Ward Sr. Pdf

This two-volume set investigates the evangelical presence in America as experienced through digital media, examining current evangelical ideologies regarding education, politics, family, and government. Evangelical broadcasting has greatly expanded its footprint in the digital age. This informative text acquaints readers with how the electronic church of today spreads its message through Internet podcasts, social networking, religious radio programs, and televised sermons; how mass media forms the institution's modern identity; and what the future of the industry holds as mobile church apps, Christian-based video games, and online worship become the norm. The work—split into two volumes—reveals the ways that the Christian broadcast community affects evangelical traditions and influences American society in general. Volume 1 explores how electronic media shapes today's Christian subculture, while the second volume describes how the electronic church impacts the wider American culture, analyzing what key figures in evangelical mass media are saying about today's religious, political, economic, and social issues. The set concludes by addressing criticism about religious media and the prospects of American public discourse to accomodate both secular and religious voices.

Author : Rachel Z. Feldman,Ian McGonigle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228019541

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Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank by Rachel Z. Feldman,Ian McGonigle Pdf

Since Israel conquered the West Bank, formerly held by Jordan, in 1967, over 400,000 settlers have moved into the territory. In recent years, Israeli settler organizations and allied American-Jewish lobbyists have responded to international condemnation of the occupation by mobilizing narratives of indigeneity, claiming sovereign and divine rights to the land. Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what Israeli settlers mean when they say they are indigenous; how settler indigeneity is felt, performed, and mediated; and what the implications of indigeneity claims are on the international stage. Building on foundational scholarship that has come out of post-colonial and indigeneity studies, the volume theorizes settler-indigeneity as a cultural phenomenon and product of transnational settler-colonial histories, while also interrogating the dialectic of “settler” and “indigenous” to illustrate their co-constitution. Considering agriculture, clothing, food, language, and religious practices, the chapters explore how feelings of indigeneity are fashioned and how these feelings continue to transform the landscape of the West Bank. Offering a series of original ethnographic accounts of these cultures and communities, Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank intimately documents and discusses the processes of settler-nativization in conversation with a variety of related literature in anthropology, cultural studies, Israel studies, religious studies, and settler-colonial studies.

Author : Richard Flory,Donald Miller
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813544267

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Finding Faith by Richard Flory,Donald Miller Pdf

Despite the masses still lining up to enter mega-churches with warehouse-like architecture, casually dressed clergy, and pop Christian music, the “Post-Boomer” generation—those ranging in age from twenty to forty—is having second thoughts. In this perceptive look at the evolving face of Christianity in contemporary culture, sociologists Richard Flory and Donald E. Miller argue that we are on the verge of another potential revolution in how Christians worship and associate with one another. Just as the formative experiences of Baby Boomers were colored by such things as the war in Vietnam, the 1960s, and a dramatic increase in their opportunities for individual expression, so Post-Boomers have grown up in less structured households with working (often divorced) parents. These childhood experiences leave them craving authentic spiritual experience, rather than entertainment, and also cause them to question institutions. Flory and Miller develop a typology that captures four current approaches to the Christian faith and argue that this generation represents a new religious orientation of “expressive communalism,” in which they seek spiritual experience and fulfillment in community and through various expressive forms of spirituality, both private and public.

Author : Michael L. Morgan,Steven Weitzman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253014771

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Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism by Michael L. Morgan,Steven Weitzman Pdf

Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

Author : Isabel Íñigo-Mora
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819713554

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Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics by Isabel Íñigo-Mora Pdf

Author : Victoria Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300116985

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Allies for Armageddon by Victoria Clark Pdf

Clark explores the 400 year history of this powerful political ideology from its beginnings among the Puritans of 17th century England to the present-day United States, where Christian Zionists wield unprecedented influence.

Author : Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830894383

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The New Christian Zionism by Gerald R. McDermott Pdf

Can a theological case be made from Scripture that Israel still has a claim to the Promised Land? Christian Zionism is often seen as the offspring of premillennial dispensationalism. But the historical roots of Christian Zionism came long before the rise of the Plymouth Brethren and John Nelson Darby. In fact, the authors of The New Christian Zionism contend that the biblical and theological connections between covenant and land are nearly as close in the New Testament as in the Old. Written with academic rigor by experts in the field, this book proposes that Zionism can be defended historically, theologically, politically and morally. While this does not sanctify every policy and practice of the current Israeli government, the authors include recommendations for how twenty-first-century Christian theology should rethink its understanding of both ancient and contemporary Israel, the Bible and Christian theology more broadly. This provocative volume proposes a place for Christian Zionism in an integrated biblical vision.

Author : Michael Stanislawski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199766048

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Zionism by Michael Stanislawski Pdf

"This Very Short Introduction discloses a history of Zionism from the origins of modern Jewish nationalism in the 1870's to the present. Michael Stanislawski provides a lucid and detached analysis of Zionism, focusing on its internal intellectual and ideological developments and divides"--

Author : Charles Selengut
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442216877

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Our Promised Land by Charles Selengut Pdf

Our Promised Land takes readers inside radical Israeli settlements to explore how they were formed, what the people in them believe, and their role in the Middle East today. Charles Selengut analyzes the emergence of the radical Israeli Messianic Zionist movement, which advocates Jewish settlement and sovereignty over the whole of biblical Israel as a religious obligation and as the means of world transformation. The movement has established scores of controversial settlements throughout the contested West Bank, bringing more than 300,000 Jews to the area. Messianic Zionism is a fundamentalist movement but wields considerable political power. Our Promised Land, which draws on years of research and interviews in these settlements, offers an intimate and nuanced look at Messianic Zionism, life in the settlements, connections with the worldwide Christian community, and the impact on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Selengut offers an in-depth exploration of a topic that is often mentioned in the headlines but little understood.

Author : Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789624236

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Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age by Miriam Feldmann Kaye Pdf

Through a critical study of the writings of Rav Shagar and Tamar Ross, Miriam Feldmann Kaye asks how Jewish theology can survive the tide of postmodernism and its refutation of a single, objective, and ultimate truth, and suggests how aspects of postmodernism might be conceived of as a potential resource for rejuvenating religion.

Author : Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520943650

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Transnational Transcendence by Thomas J. Csordas Pdf

This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. Transnational Transcendence challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship—in particular, that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. The book points out that religion's role remains understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about globalization, and it raises questions about how and why certain forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they cross national and cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J. Csordas's introduction, this timely volume both urges further development of a theory of religion and globalization and constitutes an important step toward that theory.

Author : Motti Inbari
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438426419

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Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount by Motti Inbari Pdf

The Temple Mount, located in Jerusalem, is the most sacred site in Judaism and the third-most sacred site in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The sacred nature of the site for both religions has made it one of the focal points of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount is an original and provocative study of the theological roots and historical circumstances that have given rise to the movement of the Temple Builders. Motti Inbari points to the Six Day War in 1967 as the watershed event: the Israeli victory in the war resurrected and intensified Temple-oriented messianic beliefs. Initially confined to relatively limited circles, more recent "land for peace" negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors have created theological shock waves, enabling some of the ideas of Temple Mount activists to gain wider public acceptance. Inbari also examines cooperation between Third Temple groups in Israel and fundamentalist Christian circles in the United States, and explains how such cooperation is possible and in what ways it is manifested.

Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400826520

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The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose Pdf

Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate. So argues prominent British writer Jacqueline Rose, who uses her political and psychoanalytic skills in this book to take an unprecedented look at Zionism--one of the most powerful ideologies of modern times. Rose enters the inner world of the movement and asks a new set of questions. How did Zionism take shape as an identity? And why does it seem so immutable? Analyzing the messianic fervor of Zionism, she argues that it colors Israel's most profound self-image to this day. Rose also explores the message of dissidents, who, while believing themselves the true Zionists, warned at the outset against the dangers of statehood for the Jewish people. She suggests that these dissidents were prescient in their recognition of the legitimate claims of the Palestinian Arabs. In fact, she writes, their thinking holds the knowledge the Jewish state needs today in order to transform itself. In perhaps the most provocative part of her analysis, Rose proposes that the link between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state, so often used to justify Israel's policies, needs to be rethought in terms of the shame felt by the first leaders of the nation toward their own European history. For anyone concerned with the conflict in Israel-Palestine, this timely book offers a unique understanding of Zionism as an unavoidable psychic and historical force.