RT Article
T1 The return of Baal to the Holy Land: Canaanite reconstructionism among contemporary Israeli Pagans
JF Nova religio
VO 20
IS 2
SP 59
OP 81
A1 Feraro, Shai
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1636737463
AB This article focuses on the recent emergence of Canaanite Reconstructionism in Israel - a miniature movement within the country’s small, but growing, Pagan community. The discourse of Israeli adherents of Canaanite Reconstructionism regarding its links to ancient Canaanite culture and the land - indeed the very soil - of modern-day Israel is highlighted. The development of Israeli Canaanite Reconstructionism is examined in relation to the unique nature of Israeli society and identity politics, as well as to Canaanism, a cultural and ideological movement that climaxed during the 1940s in British Mandate Palestine but declined after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.