| Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel Contributor(s): Durbin, Sean (Author) |
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ISBN: 1642590762 ISBN-13: 9781642590760 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion | Christianity - General - History | United States - 21st Century |
| Series: Studies in Critical Research on Religion |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.85 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 on 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 play as vehicles or empty signifiers through which Christian Zionist truth claims are represented as manifestly real. |
