Gideon Elazar
Biographic Data
| ID | 913971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gideon Elazar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gideon |
| FAMILY NAME | Elazar |
| SIGNATURE | ELAZAR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4114-8867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christian Zionism and the crisis of meaning in post-Mao China
This article examines Christian Zionism in the Chinese Christian context. Based on research conducted in China and Israel, as well as online research, I analyse Chinese Christian Zionism and its specific characteristics. Attachment to Israel is discussed here as an element of the effort made by reform-era believers to contextualize Chinese Christianity, its role, significance, past, and future, within China and beyond its borders. Accordingly, Ch…
Back to Jerusalem
The Chinese Christian Back to Jerusalem (BTJ) movement has attracted significant attention in the past two decades. With an original goal of sending out 100,000 Chinese missionaries to destinations throughout Asia, the movement appears to express the vitality and dynamism of reform-era Chinese Christianity. In this article I examine the movement’s development and its close correspondence to Chinese state geopolitical ambitions to reshape twenty-f…
The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among a community of immigrants from the Eastern Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram, Bene Menashe, this article deals with how these immigrants have used ethnic identity to further integrate into mainstream Jewish and Israeli society. Originally known as the Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Bene Menashe claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, cut off from other Jews for 2,700 years. Several thousand member…
Constructing and deconstructing the sacred geography of Hebron
The Tomb of the Patriarchs in the divided city of Hebron is a major site of pilgrimage for all three monotheistic religions, a space of contention, and an epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article examines the mobility of pilgrims and tourists of various religious traditions within and around the site and their efforts to construct and deconstruct overlapping and often conflicting narratives of sacred space. Thus, Moslem foreign…
Christian Missionaries, Ethnicity, and State Control in Globalized Yunnan
Concrete holiness and place attachment
Christian Zionism is a Protestant theology rooted in nineteenth-century Britain, advocating the return of Jews to the land of Israel as the fulfilment of God’s will and plan for the salvation of humanity. This article deals with the unique theology of the Christian Zionist group Hayovel, an organization dedicated to bringing Christian volunteers for agricultural work in the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Based on fieldwork conducted among …
Searching for Shangrila
In 2001, the county of Zhongdian in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, was renamed Shangrila, after the monastery described in James Hilton’s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, and in allusion to the mythical Tibetan kingdom of Shambhala. Thereafter, work began on constructing the region as an easily accessible showcase for Tibetan culture. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Shangrila Thangka Academy, this article deals with the produ…
Christian Zionists And Jewish settlers
This article examines the relationship between Evangelical Christian Zionists and West Bank Jewish settlers and its implications to the Jewish-Christian boundary. Significant contact with Christian Zionists has sparked a fierce debate among rabbinical leaders in the settlements, with some working to radically redefine the Christian-Jewish boundary and others attempting to maintain it in its traditional form. Thus, while some view the shifting of …
Nominalism
This article deals with the convergence of ethnicity and faith in the context of Christian Yunnan. Contemporary Evangelical missionaries working in Yunnan encourage the preservation of ethnic markers while attempting to create a form of 'pristine faith': a religiosity that severely limits the role of ethnicity in the construction of identity, emphasizing instead individualism and globalism-processes that may be beneficial for the Chinese state. M…
Moving away from partition
In 1991 Daniel J. Elazar published the book Two Peoples... One Land, calling for a federal solution to the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict. The idea seems to have been discredited by the Oslo process, which raised hopes that the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea would finally be divided between two independent nation states. With these hopes largely dashed, this article seeks to re-examine Elazar’s federal idea: the establishme…
Translating culture
In an attempt to emulate early modern missionaries to Yunnan who engaged in the invention of writing systems for various ethnic groups, contemporary evangelical missionaries in Yunnan have become heavily involved in the realm of linguistics, focused on the preservation of endangered languages. While such activity may potentially be perceived as a challenge to the state-Chinese linguistic hegemony, I argue that the presence of missionary linguists…
Christian Zionists And Jewish settlers
This article examines the relationship between Evangelical Christian Zionists and West Bank Jewish settlers and its implications to the Jewish-Christian boundary. Significant contact with Christian Zionists has sparked a fierce debate among rabbinical leaders in the settlements, with some working to radically redefine the Christian-Jewish boundary and others attempting to maintain it in its traditional form. Thus, while some view the shifting of …
The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among a community of immigrants from the Eastern Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram, Bene Menashe, this article deals with how these immigrants have used ethnic identity to further integrate into mainstream Jewish and Israeli society. Originally known as the Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Bene Menashe claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, cut off from other Jews for 2,700 years. Several thousand member…
Nominalism
This article deals with the convergence of ethnicity and faith in the context of Christian Yunnan. Contemporary Evangelical missionaries working in Yunnan encourage the preservation of ethnic markers while attempting to create a form of 'pristine faith': a religiosity that severely limits the role of ethnicity in the construction of identity, emphasizing instead individualism and globalism-processes that may be beneficial for the Chinese state. M…
Moving away from partition
In 1991 Daniel J. Elazar published the book Two Peoples... One Land, calling for a federal solution to the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict. The idea seems to have been discredited by the Oslo process, which raised hopes that the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea would finally be divided between two independent nation states. With these hopes largely dashed, this article seeks to re-examine Elazar’s federal idea: the establishme…
Translating culture
In an attempt to emulate early modern missionaries to Yunnan who engaged in the invention of writing systems for various ethnic groups, contemporary evangelical missionaries in Yunnan have become heavily involved in the realm of linguistics, focused on the preservation of endangered languages. While such activity may potentially be perceived as a challenge to the state-Chinese linguistic hegemony, I argue that the presence of missionary linguists…
Moving away from partition
In 1991 Daniel J. Elazar published the book Two Peoples... One Land, calling for a federal solution to the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict. The idea seems to have been discredited by the Oslo process, which raised hopes that the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea would finally be divided between two independent nation states. With these hopes largely dashed, this article seeks to re-examine Elazar’s federal idea: the establishme…
Translating culture
In an attempt to emulate early modern missionaries to Yunnan who engaged in the invention of writing systems for various ethnic groups, contemporary evangelical missionaries in Yunnan have become heavily involved in the realm of linguistics, focused on the preservation of endangered languages. While such activity may potentially be perceived as a challenge to the state-Chinese linguistic hegemony, I argue that the presence of missionary linguists…
Nominalism
This article deals with the convergence of ethnicity and faith in the context of Christian Yunnan. Contemporary Evangelical missionaries working in Yunnan encourage the preservation of ethnic markers while attempting to create a form of 'pristine faith': a religiosity that severely limits the role of ethnicity in the construction of identity, emphasizing instead individualism and globalism-processes that may be beneficial for the Chinese state. M…
Christian Zionists And Jewish settlers
This article examines the relationship between Evangelical Christian Zionists and West Bank Jewish settlers and its implications to the Jewish-Christian boundary. Significant contact with Christian Zionists has sparked a fierce debate among rabbinical leaders in the settlements, with some working to radically redefine the Christian-Jewish boundary and others attempting to maintain it in its traditional form. Thus, while some view the shifting of …
Concrete holiness and place attachment
Christian Zionism is a Protestant theology rooted in nineteenth-century Britain, advocating the return of Jews to the land of Israel as the fulfilment of God’s will and plan for the salvation of humanity. This article deals with the unique theology of the Christian Zionist group Hayovel, an organization dedicated to bringing Christian volunteers for agricultural work in the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Based on fieldwork conducted among …
Searching for Shangrila
In 2001, the county of Zhongdian in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, was renamed Shangrila, after the monastery described in James Hilton’s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, and in allusion to the mythical Tibetan kingdom of Shambhala. Thereafter, work began on constructing the region as an easily accessible showcase for Tibetan culture. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Shangrila Thangka Academy, this article deals with the produ…
Christian Missionaries, Ethnicity, and State Control in Globalized Yunnan
Back to Jerusalem
The Chinese Christian Back to Jerusalem (BTJ) movement has attracted significant attention in the past two decades. With an original goal of sending out 100,000 Chinese missionaries to destinations throughout Asia, the movement appears to express the vitality and dynamism of reform-era Chinese Christianity. In this article I examine the movement’s development and its close correspondence to Chinese state geopolitical ambitions to reshape twenty-f…
The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among a community of immigrants from the Eastern Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram, Bene Menashe, this article deals with how these immigrants have used ethnic identity to further integrate into mainstream Jewish and Israeli society. Originally known as the Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Bene Menashe claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, cut off from other Jews for 2,700 years. Several thousand member…
Constructing and deconstructing the sacred geography of Hebron
The Tomb of the Patriarchs in the divided city of Hebron is a major site of pilgrimage for all three monotheistic religions, a space of contention, and an epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article examines the mobility of pilgrims and tourists of various religious traditions within and around the site and their efforts to construct and deconstruct overlapping and often conflicting narratives of sacred space. Thus, Moslem foreign…
Christian Zionism and the crisis of meaning in post-Mao China
This article examines Christian Zionism in the Chinese Christian context. Based on research conducted in China and Israel, as well as online research, I analyse Chinese Christian Zionism and its specific characteristics. Attachment to Israel is discussed here as an element of the effort made by reform-era believers to contextualize Chinese Christianity, its role, significance, past, and future, within China and beyond its borders. Accordingly, Ch…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works)