Understanding Christian Zionism
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General Introduction
Culture, Religion, Apocalypse, and Middle East Foreign Policy
By Chip Berlet and Nikhil Aziz - Right Web
Evangelicals and Israel
Theological Roots of a Political Alliance
Donald Wagner
The Christian Century, November 4, 1998, pp. 1020-1026.
Understanding America's Right Wing
History of the "New Right," and how its positions on Israel have been influenced by the Christian Right,
by
Dr. James Zogby
"Zion's Christian Soldiers," CBS News, 2003, 60 Minutes,
online
Religion
and Politics in the United States: Nuances You Should Know
By Chip Berlet
Adapted from The Public Eye Magazine, Summer 2003
Critical of Christian Zionists
A MARRIAGE MADE
FOR HEAVEN
By Daniel Levitas
Reform Judaism Magazine, SUMMER 2003 Vol. 31, No. 4
Religious
Right Relishing Road Map's Collapse:
Fundamentalist Leaders Want Bush To Add Palestinians To List Of Targets For
War Against Terrorism
By Bill Berkowitz
Online column, Working for Change, November 21, 2003.
Gershom Gorenberg, 2002, "Unorthodox Alliance: Israeli And Jewish
Interests Are Better Served By Keeping A Polite Distance From The Christian
Right," Washington Post, October 11, p. A37, online archive, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10067-2002Oct10
Ann E. Hafften, 2003, "Challenge the Implications of 'Christian
Zionism,'" Journal of Lutheran Ethics, February 19, online http://www.elca.org/jle/articles/contemporary_issues/article.hafften_ann_e.html
Corinne Whitlatch, 2003, "Christian Commitment to Peacemaking
is Distorted by Christian Zionists," Churches for Middle East Peace
Newsletter, online http://www.cmep.org/newsletter/2003June.htm
Practice
Safe Politics
Conceptual Art Action
Jewish Women Watching
Meet
the new Zionists
The Guardian/UK
The members of the Christian Coalition of America are some of the most passionate
defenders of Israel in the United States. There's just one catch: they want
to convert all Jews to Christianity. Matthew Engel reports on an unholy alliance.
Unorthodox
Alliance
Israeli and Jewish interests are better served by keeping a polite distance
from the Christian right.
By Gershom Gorenberg
Will
fundamentalist Christians and Jews ignite apocalypse?
By MARGOT PATTERSON
National Catholic reporter
An Unholy
Alliance in Support of Israel
by Jo-Ann Mort
Why
do Christian Zionists support Israel?
Palestine Facts
The
Rapture Factor:
Why conservative Christians' love of Israel is intertwined with the Battle
of Armageddon
By Deborah Caldwell
Supportive of Christian Zionists
"Pat Robertson Forms Alliance with Mayor of Jerusalem," _Religion News Service, November 11, online at http://www.baptiststandard.com/2002/11_11/print/robertson.html.
Aparna Kumar, 2002. "Christian Coalition Calls for Solidarity with Israel," Religion News Service, November 11, online at http://www.baptiststandard.com/2002/11_11/print/israel.html
Women in Green/US
Why Christians should be worried about the fate of Jerusalem!
Christian Coalition
CHRISTIAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL PETITION
Israel welcomes Christian support in battle for survival, Sharon aide says
CHRISTIAN TIMES
STRONG CHRISTIAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
by Gary Bauer
Jewish Internet Association
Christian Zionism
List of Christian Organizations that Support Israel
Christian Action for Israel
BIBLICAL REASONS FOR CHRISTIAN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL
by Alan C. Lazerte B.A., LL.B.
More Resources
George W. Bush, Christian Evangelicals, and Apocalypticism
See the book: Stephen Mansfield, 2003, The Faith of George W. Bush,
(New York: J. P. Tarcher);
Matthew Rothschild, 2003, "Bush's Messiah Complex," The
Progressive, February, pp. 8-10, online at http://www.progressive.org/feb03/comm0203.html
Andrew Austin, 2003, "Faith Matters: George Bush and Providence," online
essay, http://www.publiceye.org/apocalyptic/bush-2003/austin-providence.html
Bill Berkowitz, 2003, "Bush's Faith-Filled Life," online
column, Working for Change, November 5, http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=15937
Chip Berlet, 2003, "Religion and Politics in the United States:
Nuances You Should Know," Public Eye, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer, pp.
13-16, revised version online http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v17n2/evangelical-demographics.htm
Looking for Anti-Semitism
Where It Isn't
by Salim Muwakkil
Kees van der Pijl, 2003, "The Aesthetics of Empire and the Defeat of
the Left," first press: writing in the critical social sciences, online
journal, http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary
American Committee on Jerusalem, (no date), "The Religious Significance
of Jerusalem," http://www.acj.org/articles/article.php?article_id=32(December
1, 2003).
There is a webcam view of the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) below the Temple
Mount maintained by Aish HaTorah, http://www.aish.com/wallcam/Window_on_the_Wall.asp (December
1, 2003).
Gershom Gorenberg, (no date), "Ariel Sharon: Messenger of Abrahamic
Apocalypse? Consider his controversial visit to a contested Jerusalem holy
site from a Muslim end-times perspective," BeliefNet, http://www.beliefnet.com/story/56/story_5673_1.html (December
1, 2003).
Neoconservatives, the Christian Right, and Apocalypticism
Khurram Husain, 2003, "Neocons: The Men Behind The Curtain," Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists, November/December, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 62–71; http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/nd03/nd03husain.html
More on Neoconservatives
Apocalypticism
Chip Berlet, 1998, "Dances with Devils: How Apocalyptic and Millennialist
Themes Influence Right Wing Scapegoating and Conspiracism," The Public
Eye, Vol. 12, Nos. 2 & 3, Fall, revised version online,
http://www.publiceye.org/apocalyptic/Dances_with_Devils_1.html
There are still some Protestant apocalyptics that see the Vatican as controlled
by the Devil, see, for example, "Conclusive Proof From The Bible That
The Pope Is The Antichrist," http://www.pacinst.com/antichri.htm
More on Apocalypticism
and Millennialism
Selected Books
Paul Boyer. 1992. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern
American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press.
Dale Aukerman. 1993. Reckoning with Apocalypse. New York: Crossroad.
Paul Thigpen. 2001. The Rapture Trap: A Catholic Response to a Deceptive
Doctrine. West Chester, PA: Ascension Press.
More Books
The Left Behind Series and Jerusalem
Gershom Gorenberg, 2000, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle
for the Temple Mount, (New York: The Free Press);
More on
the The Left Behind Series
American Committee on Jerusalem, (no date), "The Religious Significance
of Jerusalem," http://www.acj.org/articles/article.php?article_id=32
Jewish Messianism: http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/relstudies/290/judaism/messianicidea.html
Muslim Apocalypticism
For how some Muslims apply their apocalyptic views to politics in
the Middle East, see:
Catherine Wessinger, 2001, "Bin Laden and Revolutionary Millennialism," New
Orleans Times-Picayune, October 10, http://www.mille.org/cmshome/wessladen.html
Jean E. Rosenfeld, 2001, "The Religion of Usamah bin Ladin: Terror
As the Hand of God," The Public Eye online, October 9, http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/911/Islam/rosenfeld2001.htm
Chip Berlet, 2001, "Terminology: Use with Caution," Public Eye,
Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall, pp. 14-17, revised version online http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/911/clerical-911.htm
Dave Cook, 2001, "Jihad and Martyrdom Operations as Apocalyptic Events," paper
presented at the Fifth Annual Center for Millennial Studies Conference, Boston
University, November;
David Cook, 1996, "Muslim Apocalyptic and Jihad," Jerusalem Studies
in Arabic and Islam, Vol. 20, pp. 66-104;
David Cook, 2002, "America, the Second 'Ad: The Perception of
the United States in Modern Muslim Apocalyptic Literature," Yale Center
for International and Area Studies Publication 5: pp. 150-93.
On Islamic fundamentalism, see:
Bassam Tibi, 2002, The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and
the New World Disorder (Berkeley: University of California).
Ahmed Rashid, 2001, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in
Central Asia (New Haven: Yale Nota Bene).
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