'Religious-Zionism': Signifier without Signified? Or—Is Religious-Zionism Still Alive?
In the public discourse and the research literature, the signifier “religious-Zionism” is usually viewed as denoting a specific group located midway between secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews. This location does not turn religious-Zionism into a residual category including whoever is not part of the tw...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI
2023
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Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 1 |
Further subjects: | B
religious-Zionist norms
B Messianism B Pragmatism B Family Resemblance B Solidarity B consciousness of self B Identity |
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Summary: | In the public discourse and the research literature, the signifier “religious-Zionism” is usually viewed as denoting a specific group located midway between secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews. This location does not turn religious-Zionism into a residual category including whoever is not part of the two others. Quite the contrary. Religious-Zionism used to be a group with unique characteristics, including values and a normative fullness of its own. I argue in this article that, at present, the category “religious-Zionism” no longer signifies a specific group due to a series of centrifugal processes affecting it. Its ethos, myth, textual web, and authority principle have collapsed and the signifier reflects no more than a political and rabbinic discourse attempting to control the breakdown. |
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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel14010030 |