Religious Zionism between Nationalism, Religion and Modernity
Religious Zionism between Nationalism, Religion and Modernity

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I would like to offer a framework for the understanding of Religious Zionism. I am hopeful that this framework will be useful for the illumination of Zionism as a whole and perhaps also for the general phenomenon of nationalism and its relation to modernity. Stated briefly, I would like to suggest (I make no claim that I am the first person to suggest this) that nationalism is a modern phenomenon not only because the nation-state is a convenient framework for the workings of a modern economy, or because it represents the recent welding of local identities, languages and dialects into a broad territorial framework. Nationalism is a modern phenomenon because it is representative of a modern cultural or even spiritual impulse. (It is not the exclusive representative, but it is a central one).

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