“We Are the Homeowners”: Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West Bank
This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel and the West Bank. It argues that the study of sacred texts serves as a medium through which Jewish religious Zionists articulate what it means...
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| description | This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel and the West Bank. It argues that the study of sacred texts serves as a medium through which Jewish religious Zionists articulate what it means to return to an ancestral homeland. It demonstrates how the study of these sacred texts is implicated in the cultivation of two different structural modes through which religious Zionists relate to ideas of homecoming. On one side, homecoming rests in a revolutionary force of intellectual insight; on the other, it is expressed through the mystical and mysterious force of prophecy. In a broader sense, this article critiques the reticence of anthropologists to engage seriously with the broader theological ideas that are expressed through a textual medium that can be so much a part of the everyday experiences of individuals living in text-based societies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-374ae228274145c2846ec8aeb6ee0f4d2023-11-18T12:23:15ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442023-06-0114674610.3390/rel14060746“We Are the Homeowners”: Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West BankNehemia Stern0Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, IsraelThis article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel and the West Bank. It argues that the study of sacred texts serves as a medium through which Jewish religious Zionists articulate what it means to return to an ancestral homeland. It demonstrates how the study of these sacred texts is implicated in the cultivation of two different structural modes through which religious Zionists relate to ideas of homecoming. On one side, homecoming rests in a revolutionary force of intellectual insight; on the other, it is expressed through the mystical and mysterious force of prophecy. In a broader sense, this article critiques the reticence of anthropologists to engage seriously with the broader theological ideas that are expressed through a textual medium that can be so much a part of the everyday experiences of individuals living in text-based societies.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/6/746sacred textsBible studyIsraelWest Bank |
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| title | “We Are the Homeowners”: Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West Bank |
| title_full | “We Are the Homeowners”: Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West Bank |
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| title_short | “We Are the Homeowners”: Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West Bank |
| title_sort | we are the homeowners sacred textuality and the social structure of jewish religious nationalism in israel and the west bank |
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