Suppressing messianism produced a secular national theology that erased the land’s non-Jewish history

Evidence

Secular Zionism was thus not separate from Jewish-Christian theology, but rather an interpretation of it based on the biblical promise and the Jewish prayer book. Not only was a theological dimension attached to the idea of the nation, but national secular consciousness itself was a kind of reinterpretation of the theological myth and the messianic principle. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 641 (#expands, via linked claim)

In Iran the Pahlevi monarchy tried to forge a modern secular nation-state by abandoning its recent Islamic heritage in favor of an ideological retreat to the assumed splendor of the pre-Islamic Achaemenid dynasty of 529-330 BCE. The failure of the Pahlevi experiment at the hands of the Islamic revolution in 1979 is so ingrained in our consciousness that it barely needs mentioning. Nevertheless, it should be noted that Islamic Iran also has to contend with a Kurdish minority within its borders. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3479 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Zionism’s professed secularism carried hidden messianic theology — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 300; Secular Zionism reinterpreted theology rather than departing from it; Nation-state builders erase recent religious identity by inventing a more ancient one. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3479 (+7 more)

Related

• Secular Zionism reworked Jewish messianic theology rather than replacing it. (similarity 0.88)
• Zionism’s professed secularism carried hidden messianic theology (similarity 0.88)
• Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it (similarity 0.86)
• Nation-state builders erase recent religious identity by inventing a more ancient one. (similarity 0.84)
• Secular Zionism retained redemptive-messianic content while rejecting the messianic label (similarity 0.83)
• Jewish nationalization realized rather than abandoned Christian millenarian theology (similarity 0.81)
• Zionist secular nationalism borrowed Protestant theological imagination (similarity 0.81)
• De-secularized national movements retain messianic content as their legitimacy basis. (similarity 0.81)
• Zionism reacted against the older invention of Judaism as religion. (similarity 0.80)
• Secular and religious frames obscure persistent messianic assumptions in nationalism. (similarity 0.80)
• Zionism countered the earlier invention of Judaism as a religion (similarity 0.79)
• Zionism made the Bible a national rather than religious text (similarity 0.79)
• Zionism’s self-definition required rejecting parts of Jewish religious history too (similarity 0.78)
• The Land in Israeli education has no secular history beyond the Bible (similarity 0.78)
• Zionism required religious myth because it lacked the land and language pillars of nationalism. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Secular Zionism reworked Jewish messianic theology rather than replacing it. #expands (0.88) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 641
• Secular Zionism reinterpreted theology rather than departing from it #expands (0.85)
• Nation-state builders erase recent religious identity by inventing a more ancient one. #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3479
• The church’s worldview erased pre-Christian civilizations from European memory #corroborates (0.82) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 448