The Return of Baal to the Holy Land

2016/10/28 by Shai Feraro · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Biblical Studies and Interpretation #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Ideology #Mandatory Palestine #Relation (database) #State (computer science) #Identity (music) #Mandate #Politics #Ancient history #Palestine #History #Political science #Law #Art #Aesthetics

paper · doi:10.1525/nr.2016.20.2.59

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Abstract

This article focuses on the recent emergence of Canaanite Reconstructionism in Israel—a miniature movement within the country’s small, but growing, Pagan community. The discourse of Israeli adherents of Canaanite Reconstructionism regarding its links to ancient Canaanite culture and the land—indeed the very soil—of modern-day Israel is highlighted. The development of Israeli Canaanite Reconstructionism is examined in relation to the unique nature of Israeli society and identity politics, as well as to Canaanism, a cultural and ideological movement that climaxed during the 1940s in British Mandate Palestine but declined after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.

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