The context of American millenarian revolutionary theology

The case of the 'identity Christian' church of Israel

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5000846
AutoresJon Kaplan (0000-0001-6236-3884, University of Chicago, autor de correspondencia), Jeffrey Kaplan (0000-0003-1011-0126)
Año1993
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas30-82
Fecha de publicación1993-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTerrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09546559308427196
OpenAlexW2064564053
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas21

It is popularly believed that the millenarian Christian Identity theology movement in the United States is inextricably associated with revolutionary violence. This article examines the Church of Israel, an important center of Identity theology, to determine whether or not that popular impression is consistent with the facts in this case and with the Identity movement as a whole. It differentiates among the competing appeals of the far right wing offering taxonomies of organization types and ideological appeals. The conclusion is that while Christian Identity theology represents a revolution within the religious tradition, its adherents have rarely resorted to revolutionary violence, following a pattern familiar to earlier millenial movements in which the dominant motif was partial withdrawal from society punctuated by unusual and exceedingly short outbursts of violence

Aesthetics · Christian Identity · Identity crisis · Ideology · Millenarianism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Theology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies