Hamas emptied traditional religious concepts and refilled them with revolutionary content
Evidence
Hamas turned to religious and theological concepts deeply ingrained in the Palestinian and Islamic culture in general, emptying them of traditional meaning and infusing them with new revolutionary content. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2430
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Hamas discourse measurably shifted from religious to nationalist vocabulary by 2012 — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2433; Islamist revivalism mistakes an imagined past for a re-creatable one — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1633; Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 315 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Islamist revivalism mistakes an imagined past for a re-creatable one
#complicates(0.82) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1633 - Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it
#exemplifies(0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 315 - Suppressing messianism produced a secular national theology that erased the land’s non-Jewish history
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