Taming Tehran: Evangelical Christians and the Iranian Threat to Israel

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faydra L. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
The Relationship

Hostile relations between Israel and Iran since the Iranian Revolution have only intensified since the 2005 election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His strong statements imagining a ‘‘world without Zionism’’ and threats to destroy Israel, combined with an active nuclear program, have many observers concerned about the Iranian threat to Israel. We can include American evangelical Christians among this group. But given the intensity of their eschatological emphasis, we might wonder why evangelical Christians have raised such a passionate voice concerning the Iranian threat to Israel, in what kinds of ways, and what it can tell us about contemporary evangelicalism and the relationship between religion and politics. This paper examines two cases of prominent, premillennialist, evangelical Christian Zionists and their different approaches to the Iranian threat to Israel, in order to understand not only why believers in a doomed world might engage in the political sphere, but also what kinds of rhetoric they use to make sense of that engagement.

Citizenship in a diverse and multicultural society

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Modood
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Cultural Orientations ◽  
Social Mixing ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the political and cultural challenges posed by the growth of the non-white population in Europe. It reviews the chief current policy responses – assimilation, integration, and multiculturalism – in the context of claims by politicians in Germany, France, and the UK that ‘multiculturalism is dead’. The chapter distinguishes between two multicultural approaches: a valuing of diversity that accords full recognition to differences between cultural groups within a liberal democratic framework; and a multiculturalism that values cultural interaction and social mixing but withholds institutional recognition from groups, especially religious ones. The first approach may unintentionally strengthen barriers between groups and foster segregation, whilst the second may marginalise certain cultural orientations and communities. The chapter concludes by analysing the emerging ethnic fault lines across Europe and stresses the significance of a shift from colour to religion as the foundation of group identity, with major implications for the relationship between religion and politics.

The Politics of the Bible: Radicalism and Non-Denominational Co-Operation in the Birmingham Political Union

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 387-397
Author(s):  
Eileen L. Groth
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Union ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Intrinsic Connection ◽  
The Bible

In May 1832, as emissaries from the Birmingham Political Union sought to gain support for the Reform Bill in Staffordshire, the editor of the pro-Reform Birmingham Journal, W. G. Lewis, exhorted ‘Our cause is a holy cause, — it is the cause of religion, - it is the cause of humanity, — it is the cause of the Bible.’ This is but one of many declarations by radical Christian figures of the intrinsic connection they saw between religion and politics. They not only confirmed that it was right for Christians to be involved in the political sphere, but asserted that the teachings of Scripture demanded fundamental changes to the socio-political order and the principles upon which it was founded.

From Concerned Shopper to Dutiful Citizen

2012 ◽  
Vol 644 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa R. Gotlieb ◽  
Chris Wells
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Crowding Out ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Young citizens are increasingly seeking fulfillment in expressive modes of political participation, and scholars have begun to examine the implications of this trend for engagement in formal politics. While some argue that expressive practices are “crowding out” participation in more conventional civic activities, others more optimistically contend that they have expanded the political repertoires of young citizens, affording them with more opportunities to be engaged. The authors add clarity to this debate by specifying the conditions under which engagement in one particular form of expressive politics, political consumerism, is associated with conventional participation. An analysis of survey data shows that identification with other political consumers significantly enhances the relationship between political consumerism and traditional political engagement, particularly among younger generations of Americans. The authors argue that engaging in political consumerism alongside others provides an important opportunity for young citizens to develop the civic competencies necessary for engagement in the formal political sphere.

scholarly journals Religion og politik i antik jødedom og tidlig kristendom

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Bilde
Keyword(s):  
Jewish History ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
High Degree

Initially, definitions of religion and politics are discussed. Then the issue as regards the Mediterranean areas is surveyed in general. The ideas of Eddy and Fuchs are adopted. Ancient Jewish history and literature from 175 B.C. to A.D. 135 are analysed under this point of view, and it is found that in all Jewish trends the religious and the political spheres overlap to a variable high degree. In early Christianity we find a main stream of non-political “quetism” dominated almost totally by the religious sphere. Another trend is more political and more influenced by Judaism. Jesus is found to belong to this latter trend. This means that in the movement of Jesus, religion and politics were closely united. As a consequence, a major transformation of early Christianity is supposed to have taken place early in its history. This transformation is finally assumed to be closely connected with the dissociation between the early Christians and the Jews. After the separation from Judaism, Christianity became an individualistic and spiritualistic religion with little room for the political sphere. This situation changed again in the 4th century with the revolution of Constantine when the Christian religion again was connected with the decisive powers in society.

scholarly journals Unintended Securitization

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Hedva Eyal ◽  
Limor Samimian-Darash
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
The Political ◽  
Medical Aid ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Medical Establishment ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Political Security ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, we examine statements by state officials and individuals from the military and the medical establishment regarding the provision of medical aid by Israel to casualties from the Syrian Civil War. We argue discussions of this project have been characterized by three different discourses, each dominant at different times, which we classify as military, medical, and political-security. We propose “unintended securitization” to describe how the project moved from the military into the medical-civilian and then into the political sphere, and came to be seen as advancing the security interests of the Israeli state. We argue the relationship between humanitarianism and securitization seen here challenges the view that humanitarian apparatuses are often subordinated to military rationales by showing how securitization here emerged from the demilitarization of what was initially a military project.

scholarly journals Tussen katedrale en kastele: Oor die teologies-politieke probleem

2009 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniël P. Goosen
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
Levels Of Reality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Erotic

Flanked by cathedrals and castles: Theology and its political problemThis article is a reflection on the theological-political problem (i.e. the question about the relationship between religion and politics) in modern society. It presupposes that this problem was created by modernism. Because modernism distinguished in a reductive fashion between religion and politics, modern society was left with the burning question of how to mediate between them. The first part of the article focuses on a critical appraisal of the modern distinction. In different sub-sections it is argued that the modern distinction led to a reduction in meaning of both the religious and the political. However, the modern distinction cannot be maintained. Contrary to the modern distinction it is argued that the political is always already infiltrated by the theological. Modernism cannot deliver on its promises. In the concluding section the argument is raised that the theological-political problem can be addressed if we as are willing to listen to the voice of tradition. According to tradition, desire (eros) reaches out from the lowest to the highest levels of reality. The relationship between the political and the theological is inscribed within the erotic curve of desire. While eros reaches out to and also finds fulfilment in active political participation, this does not represent the end of its journey. Eros even reaches further, to the transcendent realms of philosophical contemplation and theological wisdom. In the concluding sections it is argued that both the political and the religious can again be experienced as glorious phenomena due to their erotic mutuality. Their mutuality is not (pace modernism) an argument against their own integrity, but precisely an argument in favour thereof. Die moderne wêreld staan in spanning met alle stede uit die oudheid, met alles wat kultuur verteenwoordig, met alles wat tot ’n stad behoort.(Charles Péguy)

From Nomos to Lex: Hannah Arendt on Law, Politics, and Order

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN VOLK
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
The Political ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Continuous Basis ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
The Concept Of Law ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Legal Rationality

Abstract‘What is politics?’ is an omnipresent question in Hannah Arendt's work and one which is broadly explored in countless publications. ‘What is law?’, in contrast, is a question which has not been of much interest to Arendt scholarship to date. There is a good reason for this: Arendt's engagement with law seems not to be systematic but, rather, episodic and sporadic. However, on the basis of three different discourses – historical, political-theoretical, and legal-philosophical – I shall point out that Arendt's dealing with legal questions takes place on a continuous basis and should be regarded as crucial for a proper understanding of her thoughts. I shall argue that with her shift from the Greek conception of law as nomos to the Roman lex, Arendt seeks to de-substantiate the concept of law and to highlight the relationship-establishing dimension of law. Both attempts are important for overcoming the dichotomy of law and politics within constitutionalism and for paving the way to a different understanding of legal rationality which seeks not to isolate law from the political sphere but rather to interact with it.

scholarly journals COPY PASTE VIDEO TEATER SAE DALAM KERJA POLITICAL DRAMATURGY DAN REENACTMENT DALAM KERJA SUTRADARA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Hoirul Hafifi
Keyword(s):  
Work Performance ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The Political ◽  
System Operation ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Artikel ini membahas copy paste video Teater Sae yang dilakukan Artery Performa pada senin, 8 Juli 2019 di Graha Bakti Budaya, Taman Ismail Marzuki dalam Djakarta Teater Platform merupakan cara kerja dramaturgi baru, yang mendudukkan kerja operasi sistem gagasan ke atas panggung merupakan kerja riset terhadap hubungan gambar dan estetika yang sudah menjadi arsip dalam tataran sinematografinya, maunpun reenactment dalam kerja penyutradaraan. Bukan kerja bentuk yang sama persis dengan video; tetapi lebih kepada usaha pencapaian dalam memberikan spektrum kerja performativitas yang berlapis-lapis antara arsip dan medium, antara estetika dan teknologi, juga perbedaan kodifikasi makna berdasarkan konteks arsip. Selain itu, konteksnya bagaimana memperlakukan video dokumenter yang di-copy paste dalam analisis teks, makna, dari aktor-aktor masa lalu ke arah tekstual hari ini yang bisa memiliki perbedaan dan persamaan dari beragam perspektif, termasuk pada ranah politik dalam Teater Sae, yang muaranya dilakukan oleh Dendi Madiya dalam Political Dramaturgy.This article discusses copy paste of Teater Sae video conducted by Artery Performa on Monday, July 8, 2019 at Graha Bakti Budaya, Taman Ismail Marzuki in Djakarta Theater Platform is a new dramaturgy way of working, which puts the work of the idea system operation on stage is a research work on the relationship pictures and aesthetics that have become archives in the cinematographic level, and reenactment in directing work. Not working the exact same shape as the video; but rather the effort to achieve in providing a spectrum of work performance in layers between the archive and the medium, between aesthetics and technology, as well as differences in the codification of meaning based on the context of the archive. In addition, the context is how to treat documentary videos that are copied and pasted in the analysis of texts, meanings, from past actors in the textual direction today that can have differences and similarities from various perspectives, including in the political sphere in the Sae Theater, which is done by Dendi Madiya in Political Dramaturgy.

scholarly journals Demokrasi Antara Pembatasan Dan Kebebasan Beragama Serta Implikasinya Terhadap Formalisasi Islam

FIKRAH ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Abu Hapsin
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Democratic Country

<p><span>This paper discusses the relationship between democracy and freedom of religion. If democracy is defined as the freedom to behave as long as it is still in the constitutional frame, then the problem is whether to interpret democracy by formalizing religion in the political and legal order of a democratic country? The question rests on the assumption that religion has no rational domain so that the relationship between democracy and religious freedom sometimes becomes problematic when imposed on the constitutional domain. Theories of John Rawls and Franklin I. Gamwell as modern thinkers led to the conclusion that in certain areas religion cannot be forced into the political sphere, but universally religion is part of politics.</span></p>

scholarly journals RELIGION AND POLITICS IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Danoye Oguntola Laguda
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Pluralistic Societies ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Determinant Factor

The interaction between religion and politics has been a subject of debate among scholars of religion, political scientists and sociologists. The arguments have generally been that of total or partial dis-interaction between the two phenomena. To the protagonists, religion should not be corrupted with the tricks, intrigues and challenges of politics. On the other side of the divide, the opinion is that the two institutions should relate to each other for the benefits of humanity. Our observation has shown that the nature of the society is a determinant factor if the relationship should ever be allowed to exist. It has been argued that in homogenous societies, politics and religion can relate to each other as suggested by the protagonists. However, in pluralistic societies like Nigeria, secularism has been suggested as an alternative. In Nigeria, our case study, it is noted that religions have always played significant roles in the political process, policy formulations and their implementation.

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