Righteous gentiles: religion, identity, and myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel

In Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel, Sean Durbin offers a critical analysis of America's largest Pro-Israel organization, Christians United for Israel, along with its critics and collaborators. Although many observers focus Chris...

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Main Author: Durbin, Sean (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2019]
In:Year: 2019
Series/Journal:Studies in critical research on religion Volume 9
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hagee, John 1940- / Christians United for Israel
B USA / Zionism / Philosemitism / Evangelical movement
B USA / Israel / International policy / Political influencing / Zionism / Christianity
Further subjects:B Christian Zionism United States
B Bullying in schools Prevention
B Israel (Christian theology)
B Behavior Modification
B Christian Zionism (United States)
B Christians United for Israel
B Christian Zionism
B Religion And Politics (United States)
B Israel Foreign public opinion, American Israel United States
B Conflict Management
B Israel Foreign public opinion, American
B Hagee, John
B Religion And Politics United States
B Religion And Politics
B Motion pictures in education
B Hagee, John Hagee, John
B Public opinion, American
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Summary:In Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel, Sean Durbin offers a critical analysis of America's largest Pro-Israel organization, Christians United for Israel, along with its critics and collaborators. Although many observers focus Christian Zionism's influence on American foreign policy, or whether or not Christian Zionism is `truly' religious, Righteous Gentiles takes a different approach. 0Through his creative and critical analysis of Christian Zionists' rhetoric and mythmaking strategies, Durbin demonstrates how they represent their identities and political activities as authentically religious. At the same time, Durbin examines the role that Jews and the state of Israel have as vehicles or empty signifiers through which Christian Zionist truth claims are represented as manifestly real
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004385002
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004385009