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Religion and Nationalism: The Cases of Religious Zionism and Religious Anti-Zionism
HDS 1385

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as RELIGION 147

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Description

The rise of nationalism in the nineteenth century raised a variety of issues relating to the role of religion in that European project. This course will focus on the challenges, obstacles, and role religion played in the national project Our case study will be Jewish nationalism also called Zionism. We will explore religious Zionism and religious anti-Zionism as competing philosophical movements within Jewish modernity. The focus will be less on historical events, though they are important, and more on the philosophical and theological foundations of a variety of Jewish reactions to nationalism. We will read across the plethora of Jewish voices who weighed in on the monumental Jewish project in modernity.

School Harvard Divinity School
Credits 4
Cross Reg

Available for BTI Cross Registration

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Course Component Seminar
Instruction Mode In Person
Grading Basis HDS Letter Graded
MTS/ThM Area of Focus Jewish Studies
Religion, Ethics, and Politics
Arts of Ministry Religious Education and Spiritual Development
MDiv Histories, Theologies, and Practices Judaism
Language Course Type N/A
Language Taught N/A
MDiv Scriptural Interpretation Judaism
Course Level N/A