First Flowering of Redemption: An Ethnographic Account of Contemporary Religious Zionism in Israel
[Thesis]
Nehemia Stern
Seeman, Don
Emory University
2014
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Committee members: Lipstadt, Deborah; Stein, Kenneth W.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-14940-1
Ph.D.
Religion
Emory University
2014
This study explores the relationships between religious concepts and the dilemmas and challenges that animate those concepts within the everyday lives of Jewish Political Pietists (religious Zionists) in Israel. It argues that religious experience reflects particular modes of political practice. A focus on religious ideas and concepts must rest alongside the political, economic, and cultural factors that motivate or give 'meaning' to the daily lives of religious nationalists.
Religion; Cultural anthropology; Judaic studies
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Anthropology of religion;Freedom;Hilltop youth;Individualism;Political practice;Rabbi kook;Redemption;Religious experience;Religious zionism