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Record Nr.

UNINA9910367617403321

Autore

Engberg Aron

Titolo

Walking on the pages of the Word of God : self, land, and text among Evangelical volunteers in Jerusalem / / by Aron Engberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2019

Leiden Boston : , : Brill | Rodopi, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-41189-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Currents of Encounter; ; volume59

Disciplina

261.2/6095694

Soggetti

Christian Zionism - Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Lund : Lund University, 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgments -- List of Interviews -- Introduction -- Evangelical Zionism in Jerusalem -- Self: Calling, Agency, and Transformation -- Land: Israel, Place, and Presence -- Text: Literalism, Prophecy, and Authenticity -- Walking on the Pages of the Word of God -- Back Matter -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem. The volunteers are connected to Christian organizations which consider their work a natural consequence of the biblical promises to Israel and their responsibility to “bless the Jewish people”. Relying on ethnographic data of the discursive practices of the volunteers, the book explores a central puzzle of Zionist Christianity: the narrative production of Israel’s religious significance and its relationship to broader Christian language traditions. By focusing on the volunteers’ stories about themselves, the land and the Bible, Aron Engberg offers a convincing account about how the State of Israel is finding its way into evangelical identities.