{"product_id":"walking-on-the-pages-of-the-word-of-god-self-land-and-text-among-evangelical-volunteers-in-jerusalem-9789004409125","title":"Walking on the Pages of the Word of God: Self, Land, and Text Among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem. The volunteers are connected to Christian organizations which consider their work a natural consequence of the biblical promises to Israel and their responsibility to “bless the Jewish people”.    Relying on ethnographic data of the discursive practices of the volunteers, the book explores a central puzzle of Zionist Christianity: the narrative production of Israel’s religious significance and its relationship to broader Christian language traditions. By focusing on the volunteers’ stories about themselves, the land and the Bible, Aron Engberg offers a convincing account about how the State of Israel is finding its way into evangelical identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers will discover a wealth of insight in Engberg’s new book, from the formation and functioning of global evangelical networks to religious language and the role Christian Zionists have played in shaping the lived landscape of contemporary Jerusalem. This is an indispensable ethnography, one that promises to make a lasting impact on the interdisciplinary study of Christianity and the social life of scriptures more broadly.\" — James S. Bielo, Miami University  \"Based on intensive fieldwork, Aron Engberg provides a vivid portrait of Evangelical volunteers in Israel. For them, living in the Bible Land is not about venerating the past, but its restoration through the State of Israel. The contradictions between prophecy and current life in Israel are resolved through a postponement of understanding, which authenticates action as being a result of God’s agency. Engberg describes this process, fluctuating between the persuasiveness of narrative truth and the limits of human agency, with precision and coherence. In doing so, he provides an empathetic but not romanticized account of Christian Zionism that relates it to broader issues in contemporary Protestantism.\" — Jackie Feldman, Ben Gurion University of the Negev  \"Aron Engberg provides a closely observed account of Israel as both contemporary place and complex object of aspiration for Protestant evangelical volunteers. Working through individual encounters and biographies, he brings into conversation two areas of research that have had strangely little to say to each other so far: Christian Zionism, and analysis of the forms and functions of Protestant language ideologies. The result is a hugely engaging text that tells us much about how Jerusalem is lived, imagined, and narrated by powerful advocates for the State of Israel as political and spiritual entity.\" — Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Professor, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Interviews    1 Introduction    Walking on the Pages of the Word of God    Toward an Ethnography of Christian Zionism    “Christian Zionism”: Belief and Practice     Biblical Literalism     Christian Zionism as Narrative and Process    Meaning, Language, and Narrative     Meaning \u0026amp; Symbol     Language Ideology     Religious Language \u0026amp; Narrative Performance    The Scene in Jerusalem     The Volunteers     Interviews    Self, Land, and Text  2 Evangelical Zionism in Jerusalem    History of the Organizations     Restorationism and Dispensationalism     Jerusalem in the 1970s     Connecting Israel with the Evangelical World     Practical Support and Founding Organizations     Navigating the Socio-Political Space     Covenantal Theology     Going Mainstream     The Ministries Today    At the Embassy 2012  3 Self: Calling, Agency and Transformation    Narratives, Performance, and Transformation    The Calling     “It Wasn’t Our Idea”—Calling and Agency     Suspension of Agency     Narrative Non-Sense Making     Agency in Abeyance    Self-Transformation     Realizing Israel’s Spiritual Significance     Becoming Ruth     Continuous Conversion—Faith Walk    Conclusions  4 Land: Israel, Place and Presence    Space, Place and the “Holy Land”     The “Land of the Bible” and the Evangelical Gaze     Where Miracles Happen     “God’s Fire is in Zion, but His Furnace is in Jerusalem”     The Cosmic Center     A Locative Thrust    Tensions     Another Problem of Presence     Can Israel Fall Apart?     “To Live between the Tensions”    Conclusions  5 Text: Literalism, Prophecy and Authenticity    An Ideology of Literalism    Ambiguities of Prophecy Belief     Prophecy: Past \u0026amp; Present     Prophecy: Future     Bible Prophecy as an Interpretative Tradition    Hebraic Roots of Christian Faith     History and Authenticity     Hebraic and Greek Worldviews     Purification     A Vanguard of Reform    Conclusions  6 Walking on the Pages of the Word of God    Continuities and Discontinuities of Evangelical Zionism     Globalizing Christian Zionism     Contesting Language Ideologies     Alternative Readings of Israel    Walking on the Pages    References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210781319511,"sku":"9789004409125","price":50.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/walking-on-the-pages-of-the-word-of-god-self-land-and-text-among-evangelical-volunteers-in-jerusalem-9789004409125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}