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Evangelicalism in the Interspaces : The Construction of Judeo-Christian Identity in a Messianic Community in Jerusalem

ENGBERG, ARON LU (2012) Religion in the Interspace In Swedish Missiological Themes 100(3). p.263-263
Abstract
This paper is based on ethnographic field work in an evangelical/Messianic community in contemporary Jerusalem. In the paper I interpret the pro-Israeli strand of Evangelicalism’s fascination with Judaica and Jewish ritual in relation to the movement’s location in a temporal-spatial interspace. I argue that the Christian Zionist impulse to experiment with Jewish tradition needs to be understood as an attempt to navigate the religious interspaces which are formed by its strong identification with the Jewish people and the State of Israel, its integration of the national movement of Zionism into a specific Protestant eschatology and its concrete presence in the context of Israeli society.
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keywords
Messianic Judaism, Christian Zionism, Evangelicalism, Interspace, Syncretism, Yeshua Believers, Jerusalem, Ethnography
in
Swedish Missiological Themes
volume
100
issue
3
pages
281 pages
publisher
Swedish Institute of Mission Research
conference name
Religion in the Interspace
conference location
Lund, Sweden
conference dates
2012-03-15 - 2012-03-16
ISSN
0346-217X
language
English
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yes
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da87b031-5b44-4496-9544-76b882add382
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  author       = {{ENGBERG, ARON}},
  issn         = {{0346-217X}},
  keywords     = {{Messianic Judaism; Christian Zionism; Evangelicalism; Interspace; Syncretism; Yeshua Believers; Jerusalem; Ethnography}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{263--263}},
  publisher    = {{Swedish Institute of Mission Research}},
  series       = {{Swedish Missiological Themes}},
  title        = {{Evangelicalism in the Interspaces : The Construction of Judeo-Christian Identity in a Messianic Community in Jerusalem}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/13248287/Aron_Engberg_Evangelicalism_in_the_Interspaces.pdf}},
  volume       = {{100}},
  year         = {{2012}},
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