Expressivist Religious Zionism: Modernity and the Sacred in a Nationalist Movement

This book presents a new approach to the study of Religious Zionism. In counter-distinction to the prevalent fundamentalist approach, it argues that mainstream of Religious Zionism is a romantic religious nationalist movement in which the modern idea of self-expression and related notions, such as the free and authentic self and the overcoming of alienation, forms its philosophical core.

By showing how such notions are combined with conservative and un-modern cultural and political goals (su...