- Title
- Mediating the past through the present and the present through the past: the symbiotic relationship of American Christian Zionists' outsider and insider enemies
- Creator
- Durbin, Sean
- Relation
- Political Theology Vol. 15, Issue 2, p. 110-131
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1462317X13Z.00000000070
- Publisher
- Maney Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- This article examines what is described as a symbiotic relationship between individuals and groups that make up “outsider” and “insider” enemies within a conservative strand of American Christian Zionism. It argues that a particular construction of Islam and Muslims as inherently violent is given a timeless quality through a particular reading of the sibling rivalry between Isaac and Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible, a reading which simultaneously unites Christians and Jews as heirs to God’s covenantal promises. It argues that this description of “outsider” enemies produces a particular kind of knowledge which is used to define and criticize what are termed “insider” enemies. As with Christian Zionists’ outsider enemies, these insider enemies are also given a timeless quality through a Christian Zionist reading of the Passion narrative and history of early Christianity that places them in a position of instruments of Satan, and a danger to the state.
- Subject
- Christian Zionism; discourse analysis; social formation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1298930
- Identifier
- uon:19752
- Identifier
- ISSN:1462-317X
- Language
- eng
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