Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel (Studies in Critical Research on Religion)

by Sean Durbin

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In Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel, Sean Durbin offers a critical analysis of America's largest Pro-Israel organization, Christians United for Israel, along with its critics and collaborators. Although many observers focus on Christian Zionism's influence on American foreign policy, or whether or not Christian Zionism is 'truly' religious, Righteous Gentiles takes a different approach.

Through his creative and critical analysis of Christian Zionists' rhetoric and mythmaking strategies, Durbin demonstrates how they represent their identities and political activities as authentically religious. At the same time, Durbin examines the role that Jews and the state of Israel play as vehicles or empty signifiers through which Christian Zionist truth claims are represented as manifestly real.

  • ISBN10 1642590762
  • ISBN13 9781642590760
  • Publish Date 9 April 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Haymarket Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 264
  • Language English