Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State - Theologies of the Real

Considers political theologies formulated in Iran and Israel over the course of the twentieth century.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ori Goldberg, Ori (Tel-Aviv University) Goldberg, Goldberg Ori
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107115675
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11567-5
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Iran, Israel, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Comparative Politics, Middle Eastern history, Constitution: government and the state