Nation-statist soteriology and traditions of defeat: Religious-Zionism, the Ninth of Av, and Jerusalem Day
We ask how the theopolitics of a nation-state, and especially its soteriology, engage with traditions that preceded the state and relay messages that contradict this theopolitics. To discuss this question, we address the evolving (re-)interpretation of the Ninth of Av - a ritual commemoration of the...
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2022
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| description | We ask how the theopolitics of a nation-state, and especially its soteriology, engage with traditions that preceded the state and relay messages that contradict this theopolitics. To discuss this question, we address the evolving (re-)interpretation of the Ninth of Av - a ritual commemoration of the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of Jewish (Judean) self-rule in ancient times - by Religious-Zionist commentators. We further compare this interpretation to the Religious-Zionist appropriation of Jerusalem Day, a civic holiday celebrating the establishment of Israeli control over East Jerusalem in the June 1967 war. We argue that the statist imperative of the superiority of nation-statist theopolitics suggests that traditions are co-opted to fit in with its soteriology, with varying degrees of resistance or willing accommodation by carriers of these traditions. This co-opting may result in either the de-politicization of what the statist view would see as religion or the religionization of the state's own civic and so-called secular holidays. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2ab9c19a-f027-4550-a662-5b5f8680eeaf2024-03-07T10:36:36ZNation-statist soteriology and traditions of defeat: Religious-Zionism, the Ninth of Av, and Jerusalem DayJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:2ab9c19a-f027-4550-a662-5b5f8680eeafEnglishSymplectic ElementsCambridge University Press2022Yadgar, YHadad, NWe ask how the theopolitics of a nation-state, and especially its soteriology, engage with traditions that preceded the state and relay messages that contradict this theopolitics. To discuss this question, we address the evolving (re-)interpretation of the Ninth of Av - a ritual commemoration of the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of Jewish (Judean) self-rule in ancient times - by Religious-Zionist commentators. We further compare this interpretation to the Religious-Zionist appropriation of Jerusalem Day, a civic holiday celebrating the establishment of Israeli control over East Jerusalem in the June 1967 war. We argue that the statist imperative of the superiority of nation-statist theopolitics suggests that traditions are co-opted to fit in with its soteriology, with varying degrees of resistance or willing accommodation by carriers of these traditions. This co-opting may result in either the de-politicization of what the statist view would see as religion or the religionization of the state's own civic and so-called secular holidays. |
| spellingShingle | Yadgar, Y Hadad, N Nation-statist soteriology and traditions of defeat: Religious-Zionism, the Ninth of Av, and Jerusalem Day |
| title | Nation-statist soteriology and traditions of defeat: Religious-Zionism, the Ninth of Av, and Jerusalem Day |
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| title_short | Nation-statist soteriology and traditions of defeat: Religious-Zionism, the Ninth of Av, and Jerusalem Day |
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