Expressivist Religious Zionism

This book presents a new approach to the study of Religious Zionism, and argues that Religious Zionism is a romantic religious nationalist movement in which the modern idea of self-expression forms its philosophical core. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religious nationalism, Jewish studies, Israel and the Middle East.

1 Expressivist Religious Zionism: An introduction; 2 The origins of expressivism in the Religious Zionist community: National identity and the Torah Regime; 3 R Kook's religious philosophy as expressivist thought; 4 The institutionalization of expressivist Religious Zionism; 5 The general will and the divine state; 6 Illegalism and loyalty to the state from Sebastia to the Disengagement; 7 The individualist turn: Personal religion and the religious meaning of literature, art, and sex; 8 Neo-Hasidism, apocalyptic radicalism, and the recognition of the Other; 9 The political sphere: The judicial reform and the Iron Swords War; 10 Concluding reflections