Faydra L Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 640986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faydra L Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faydra L |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO F L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, State, and Land of Israel
‘Thank you Israel, for supporting America’
This article seeks to understand what it means when, in 2006, a noted British pastor and Bible teacher stood up in front of 8000 evangelical Zionists from all over the world at the convention centre in Jerusalem and addressed the audience with the following counter-intuitive words: 'Thank you Israel, for supporting America!' Evangelical Christianity has complex relations and ambivalent relations to the nation state and globalisation. Supernatural…
The Messiah and Rabbi Jesus
For all their ostensible difference and separateness, Judaism and Christianity have a long history of mutual engagement and profound entanglement. I take Daniel Boyarin's assertion that ‘...the borders between Christianity and Judaism are as constructed and imposed, as artificial and political as any of the borders of the earth’ (2004, 1) as my starting point. But what Boyarin sees as an ongoing process of differentiation between Judaism and Chri…
Taming Tehran
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 eschatologica…
To the Apple of God's Eye
This article examines a case of travel to Israel which might further complicate the already blurry line between tourism and pilgrimage: evangelical, Christian Zionist visits to Israel. The Israeli Ministry of Tourism estimates that evangelical Christians account for one third of American visitors to Israel. My research investigates how Christian Zionist travel to Israel is both ‘touristic’ and ‘pilgrimage-like’ and how this case can serve to ques…
Autobiography and Ethnography
This article considers the potential value of the researcher's self for making sense of others in doing fieldwork and writing ethnography. The author shows how her insights about an Israel experience program for unaffiliated, North American Jewish youth owe much to her positioned self, and she assesses how her self was radically altered by her fieldwork. Grounded in both personal narrative and ethnographic description, the author explores the mut…
Learning to be a diaspora Jew through the Israel experience
The expression "diaspora Jewry" is commonly used to indicate all Jews living outside Israel, the great majority of whom are in the United States. This paper suggests that for many North American Jews, any deep emotional or religions connection with the land of Israel has been erased/forgotten. I show how a sense of that lost diaspora consciousness is (re-)created among participants using a case study of an Israel Experience Program. Livnot U'Lehi…
To the Apple of God's Eye
This article examines a case of travel to Israel which might further complicate the already blurry line between tourism and pilgrimage: evangelical, Christian Zionist visits to Israel. The Israeli Ministry of Tourism estimates that evangelical Christians account for one third of American visitors to Israel. My research investigates how Christian Zionist travel to Israel is both ‘touristic’ and ‘pilgrimage-like’ and how this case can serve to ques…
Taming Tehran
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 eschatologica…
The Messiah and Rabbi Jesus
For all their ostensible difference and separateness, Judaism and Christianity have a long history of mutual engagement and profound entanglement. I take Daniel Boyarin's assertion that ‘...the borders between Christianity and Judaism are as constructed and imposed, as artificial and political as any of the borders of the earth’ (2004, 1) as my starting point. But what Boyarin sees as an ongoing process of differentiation between Judaism and Chri…
Autobiography and Ethnography
This article considers the potential value of the researcher's self for making sense of others in doing fieldwork and writing ethnography. The author shows how her insights about an Israel experience program for unaffiliated, North American Jewish youth owe much to her positioned self, and she assesses how her self was radically altered by her fieldwork. Grounded in both personal narrative and ethnographic description, the author explores the mut…
Learning to be a diaspora Jew through the Israel experience
The expression "diaspora Jewry" is commonly used to indicate all Jews living outside Israel, the great majority of whom are in the United States. This paper suggests that for many North American Jews, any deep emotional or religions connection with the land of Israel has been erased/forgotten. I show how a sense of that lost diaspora consciousness is (re-)created among participants using a case study of an Israel Experience Program. Livnot U'Lehi…
Learning to be a diaspora Jew through the Israel experience
The expression "diaspora Jewry" is commonly used to indicate all Jews living outside Israel, the great majority of whom are in the United States. This paper suggests that for many North American Jews, any deep emotional or religions connection with the land of Israel has been erased/forgotten. I show how a sense of that lost diaspora consciousness is (re-)created among participants using a case study of an Israel Experience Program. Livnot U'Lehi…
Autobiography and Ethnography
This article considers the potential value of the researcher's self for making sense of others in doing fieldwork and writing ethnography. The author shows how her insights about an Israel experience program for unaffiliated, North American Jewish youth owe much to her positioned self, and she assesses how her self was radically altered by her fieldwork. Grounded in both personal narrative and ethnographic description, the author explores the mut…
To the Apple of God's Eye
This article examines a case of travel to Israel which might further complicate the already blurry line between tourism and pilgrimage: evangelical, Christian Zionist visits to Israel. The Israeli Ministry of Tourism estimates that evangelical Christians account for one third of American visitors to Israel. My research investigates how Christian Zionist travel to Israel is both ‘touristic’ and ‘pilgrimage-like’ and how this case can serve to ques…
Taming Tehran
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 eschatologica…
The Messiah and Rabbi Jesus
For all their ostensible difference and separateness, Judaism and Christianity have a long history of mutual engagement and profound entanglement. I take Daniel Boyarin's assertion that ‘...the borders between Christianity and Judaism are as constructed and imposed, as artificial and political as any of the borders of the earth’ (2004, 1) as my starting point. But what Boyarin sees as an ongoing process of differentiation between Judaism and Chri…
‘Thank you Israel, for supporting America’
This article seeks to understand what it means when, in 2006, a noted British pastor and Bible teacher stood up in front of 8000 evangelical Zionists from all over the world at the convention centre in Jerusalem and addressed the audience with the following counter-intuitive words: 'Thank you Israel, for supporting America!' Evangelical Christianity has complex relations and ambivalent relations to the nation state and globalisation. Supernatural…
Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, State, and Land of Israel
Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Religious Studies (4 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works)