Ori Goldberg

Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State considers political theologies formulated in Iran and Israel over the course of the twentieth century and proposes that these theologies have drawn their strength from a commitment to their concrete, divinely infused reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781107115675
• ISBN-10: 1107115671
• Artikelnr.: 48684606

Autorenporträt

Ori Goldberg teaches at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, Connecticut, and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the co-author of Understanding Shiite Leadership: The Art of the Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon (Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: religion as a political problem; Part I. The Crisis of the
Real: 1. Khomeini at the end of the Iran-Iraq War: the necessity and
frustration of faith; Part II. The Subverting Real: Mediating Absolute
Perfections: 2. Sharon's speech: the first Israeli narrative: the straight
lines of leadership and time; 3. The settler narrative: sovereignty as
faith: redemption and the expansion of the real; 4. Gershon Hacohen's
theology of the real: subversive mediation; Part III. The Urgency of the
Real: 5. ISIS and the establishment of the caliphate: redemption and
hollowness.