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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.
Through 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.
Through 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.
Price: $201.00
Pages: 264
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
04 October 2018
ISBN: 9789004384958
Format: Hardcover
"Durbin’s focus on identity, myth, and practice in Righteous Gentiles distinguishes him from the normal preoccupations of scholarship on Christian Zionism that are entrenched in apocalyptic explanations. (...) This is both refreshing and significant for the future of study and will likely redound in coming years into studies undertaken by historians as well (...) In reconceiving of Christian Zionism in terms of identity, myth, and practice, Durbin has demonstrated the significant gains of an analytical and theoretical approach that elides the question of motives to explore the rhetorical and identity strategies of Christian Zionists themselves." - Daniel G. Hummel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 87.3, 2019
Sean Durbin, PhD (2014), Macquarie University, has taught at universities throughout Australia. He is editor of the journal Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on Christian Zionism.