Sean Durbin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3836732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Durbin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Durbin |
| SIGNATURE | DURBIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University Melbourne, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
America’s Road to Jerusalem: The Impact of the Six-Day War on Protestant Politics. By Jason M. Olson
One of the claims often made by contemporary Christian Zionists is that the state of Israel provides the greatest proof for the existence of God in the modern world. For Christians of this theological persuasion, the creation of Israel in 1948 and its expansion after the Six-Day War in 1967 were both proof that God’s word remains true and that he is still active in history. Although this understanding of Israel is accepted by many Christians in t…
Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel
In Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel, Sean Durbin offers a critical analysis of America's largest Pro-Israel organization, Christians United for Israel, along with its critics and collaborators. Although many observers focus Christian Zionism's influence on American foreign policy, or whether or not Christian Zionism is 'truly' religious, Righteous Gentiles takes a different approach. Th…
Violence as Revelation: American Christian Zionist Theodicy, and the Construction of Religion through Violence
Drawing on Russell McCutcheon’s (2003) redescription of the theological category of theodicy as a socio-political rhetoric that functions to conserve social interests, this article examines the way that American Christian Zionists employ theodicies to explain historical, contemporary, and anticipated acts of violence. It argues that violence is central to Christian Zionists’ conception of God’s revelation, and thus to their identity. Rather than …
God's Country: Christian Zionism in America. By Samuel Goldman
The vastness of the primary sources and the quality of the existing scholarship should have served as warnings to an inexperienced voyager” (p. 241). Yet it is fortunate that Goldman persisted because he has produced a highly readable overview of American Christian thought about Israel from the time of the Puritans to the modern period. The book itself, which Goldman describes as “an essay in the history of ideas, is aimed at readers who want to …
Mediating the Past through the Present and the Present through the Past: The Symbiotic Relationship of American Christian Zionists’ Outsider and Insider Enemies
This article examines what is described as a symbiotic relationship between individuals and groups that make up “outsider” and “insider” enemies within a conservative strand of American Christian Zionism. It argues that a particular construction of Islam and Muslims as inherently violent is given a timeless quality through a particular reading of the sibling rivalry between Isaac and Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible, a reading which simultaneously uni…
I am an Israeli’: Christian Zionism as American redemption
This article argues that discourse used to define and understand Israel by prominent American Christian Zionists is a discourse of national idealisation. Drawing on Durkheim's (2008 Durkheim, Emile. 2008. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Translated by C. Cosman [Google Scholar]) notion of symbols as sources of social solidarity, I argue that this imagined Israel reflects conservative social and military val…
I will bless those who bless you”: Christian Zionism, Fetishism, and Unleashing the Blessings of God
This article focuses on the concept of ‘blessing’ Israel that has become common among contemporary American Christian Zionists. After introducing a theological scheme that has dominated discussions of contemporary Christian Zionism, the article critically examines one of the emerging narratives concerning the (re)discovery of Christian Zionists’ Jewish roots and the way the Jewish contribution to Christianity is framed. Following this, the articl…
"For Such a Time as This": Reading (and Becoming) Esther with Christians United for Israel
A great deal of work on contemporary Christian Zionism focuses on the apocalyptic eschatology of premillennial dispensationalism, critiquing it from an idealistic perspective that posits a direct line of causality from "belief" to action. Such critiques frequently assert that since Christian Zionists are biblical literalists, they read apocalyptic texts such as Revelation and Ezekiel with the goal of making the events they find predicted in these…
I will bless those who bless you”: Christian Zionism, Fetishism, and Unleashing the Blessings of God
This article focuses on the concept of ‘blessing’ Israel that has become common among contemporary American Christian Zionists. After introducing a theological scheme that has dominated discussions of contemporary Christian Zionism, the article critically examines one of the emerging narratives concerning the (re)discovery of Christian Zionists’ Jewish roots and the way the Jewish contribution to Christianity is framed. Following this, the articl…
I am an Israeli’: Christian Zionism as American redemption
This article argues that discourse used to define and understand Israel by prominent American Christian Zionists is a discourse of national idealisation. Drawing on Durkheim's (2008 Durkheim, Emile. 2008. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Translated by C. Cosman [Google Scholar]) notion of symbols as sources of social solidarity, I argue that this imagined Israel reflects conservative social and military val…
Mediating the Past through the Present and the Present through the Past: The Symbiotic Relationship of American Christian Zionists’ Outsider and Insider Enemies
This article examines what is described as a symbiotic relationship between individuals and groups that make up “outsider” and “insider” enemies within a conservative strand of American Christian Zionism. It argues that a particular construction of Islam and Muslims as inherently violent is given a timeless quality through a particular reading of the sibling rivalry between Isaac and Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible, a reading which simultaneously uni…
"For Such a Time as This": Reading (and Becoming) Esther with Christians United for Israel
A great deal of work on contemporary Christian Zionism focuses on the apocalyptic eschatology of premillennial dispensationalism, critiquing it from an idealistic perspective that posits a direct line of causality from "belief" to action. Such critiques frequently assert that since Christian Zionists are biblical literalists, they read apocalyptic texts such as Revelation and Ezekiel with the goal of making the events they find predicted in these…
I am an Israeli’: Christian Zionism as American redemption
This article argues that discourse used to define and understand Israel by prominent American Christian Zionists is a discourse of national idealisation. Drawing on Durkheim's (2008 Durkheim, Emile. 2008. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Translated by C. Cosman [Google Scholar]) notion of symbols as sources of social solidarity, I argue that this imagined Israel reflects conservative social and military val…
I will bless those who bless you”: Christian Zionism, Fetishism, and Unleashing the Blessings of God
This article focuses on the concept of ‘blessing’ Israel that has become common among contemporary American Christian Zionists. After introducing a theological scheme that has dominated discussions of contemporary Christian Zionism, the article critically examines one of the emerging narratives concerning the (re)discovery of Christian Zionists’ Jewish roots and the way the Jewish contribution to Christianity is framed. Following this, the articl…
Mediating the Past through the Present and the Present through the Past: The Symbiotic Relationship of American Christian Zionists’ Outsider and Insider Enemies
This article examines what is described as a symbiotic relationship between individuals and groups that make up “outsider” and “insider” enemies within a conservative strand of American Christian Zionism. It argues that a particular construction of Islam and Muslims as inherently violent is given a timeless quality through a particular reading of the sibling rivalry between Isaac and Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible, a reading which simultaneously uni…
Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel
In Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel, Sean Durbin offers a critical analysis of America's largest Pro-Israel organization, Christians United for Israel, along with its critics and collaborators. Although many observers focus Christian Zionism's influence on American foreign policy, or whether or not Christian Zionism is 'truly' religious, Righteous Gentiles takes a different approach. Th…
Violence as Revelation: American Christian Zionist Theodicy, and the Construction of Religion through Violence
Drawing on Russell McCutcheon’s (2003) redescription of the theological category of theodicy as a socio-political rhetoric that functions to conserve social interests, this article examines the way that American Christian Zionists employ theodicies to explain historical, contemporary, and anticipated acts of violence. It argues that violence is central to Christian Zionists’ conception of God’s revelation, and thus to their identity. Rather than …
God's Country: Christian Zionism in America. By Samuel Goldman
The vastness of the primary sources and the quality of the existing scholarship should have served as warnings to an inexperienced voyager” (p. 241). Yet it is fortunate that Goldman persisted because he has produced a highly readable overview of American Christian thought about Israel from the time of the Puritans to the modern period. The book itself, which Goldman describes as “an essay in the history of ideas, is aimed at readers who want to …
America’s Road to Jerusalem: The Impact of the Six-Day War on Protestant Politics. By Jason M. Olson
One of the claims often made by contemporary Christian Zionists is that the state of Israel provides the greatest proof for the existence of God in the modern world. For Christians of this theological persuasion, the creation of Israel in 1948 and its expansion after the Six-Day War in 1967 were both proof that God’s word remains true and that he is still active in history. Although this understanding of Israel is accepted by many Christians in t…
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