Analyses missing settler colonialism misread why religiosity rises in Israel.
Evidence
While in many cases of examining nationalism and religion, such as those referenced above, the analysis is valuable, its dead spot is overlooking or denying the settler-colonial context and its impact on why and how religious claims are being progressively employed as politics become more sacralized. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 517
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 435; Palestinian resistance drives the rise of religious nationalism in Israel — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 555; Israeli religious encroachment rises as a legitimation response to Palestinian resistance. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 435 (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Biblical land-redemption ideology distinguishes Israeli settler colonialism from classic settler modes.
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 654 - A settler-colonial regime whose founding narrative is sacred cannot secularize without renouncing that narrative
#expands(0.85) - Zionism’s core rationales were Judaized colonial doctrines
#expands(0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 976 - Secular Zionism reinterpreted theology rather than departing from it
#expands(0.82) - Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it
#expands(0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 315 - Zionism’s essence drives settler colonization rather than contingent constraints limiting it
#expands(0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 437 - Native resistance caused Israel’s turn to overt religious legitimation
#expands(0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 555 - Israel’s religious-secular binary functions as a self-purifying rhetoric that masks racial exclusion
#expands(0.72) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 708 - The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse
#corroborates(0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 146 - Assimilation paradoxically produced Jewish chauvinism rather than dissolving it
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