Prophetic Disappointment and Ideological Change among Israeli Settlers' Rabbis

The Case of Rabbis Yehuda Amital and Shmuel Tal

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3418248
AutoresMotti Inbari (0000-0001-5018-6737, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen12
Número11
Páginas1017
Fecha de publicación2021-11-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12111017
OpenAlexW3213266916
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas12

In this article, I examine the role of prophetic disappointment in creating ideological change. I discuss the response of two Orthodox rabbis, Rabbi Yehuda Amital (1924-2010) and Rabbi Shmuel Tal (b. 1962), to the crisis of faith they encountered regarding the role of Zionism in the messianic drama. This research describes the process of religious switching they have gone through due to failure of prophetic faith. This work argues that their transformation was an attempt to cope with the tension that results from cognitive dissonance in two different instances while blaming a third party for misunderstanding the true will of God. Their religious switching was an act of theodicy, justifying God's justice, while renouncing their previous held beliefs

Cognitive dissonance · Disappointment · Economic Justice · Faith · Forgiveness · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology