The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.
This chapter contributes to two rarely connected fields - the critical study of Christianity – an... more This chapter contributes to two rarely connected fields - the critical study of Christianity – and critical or scholarship of ‘the left’ on Israel. Israel is discussed as an example of the formative power of Christianity and Christendom – how Christianity, as a social and political force, has been instrumental in the making and sustaining of Israel. The chapter also shows why the concept of Christianity is highly relevant to our understandings of Israeli state formation, even if, indeed perhaps because of, how progressive scholarship largely ignores it. The aim is not to replace concepts such as ‘settler colony’ or ‘race’, or ‘apartheid’ – those consistently reiterated in left scholarship – but to argue that Christianity is also foundational. We can conceive of Israel as no more (nor less) than a western settler colony engaged in a project of dispossession and genocide against an indigenous population. But, if we can also understand Israel in its historical, regional, and spiritual contexts, our imaginings of Israel’s past, present, and futures are enhanced. The story of Christianity in the making of Israel is a neglected one that this chapter is intended to elucidate.
Page 1. 'IDO NOT ATTACH GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO IT': TAKING NOTE OF 'THE HOLOCAUST&#... more Page 1. 'IDO NOT ATTACH GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO IT': TAKING NOTE OF 'THE HOLOCAUST' IN ENGLISH CASE LAW DIDI HERMAN University of Kent, UK ABSTRACT The first part of this article traces the history of the ...
A unified Europe the economic and political powerhouse of the world looms just over the horiz... more A unified Europe the economic and political powerhouse of the world looms just over the horizon. All that is lacking is a strong personality to galvanise and unify the various factions on the continent. And that person is coming! Charles Dyer, World News and Bible Prophecy ...
A unified Europe the economic and political powerhouse of the world looms just over the horiz... more A unified Europe the economic and political powerhouse of the world looms just over the horizon. All that is lacking is a strong personality to galvanise and unify the various factions on the continent. And that person is coming! Charles Dyer, World News and Bible Prophecy ...
The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.
This chapter contributes to two rarely connected fields - the critical study of Christianity – an... more This chapter contributes to two rarely connected fields - the critical study of Christianity – and critical or scholarship of ‘the left’ on Israel. Israel is discussed as an example of the formative power of Christianity and Christendom – how Christianity, as a social and political force, has been instrumental in the making and sustaining of Israel. The chapter also shows why the concept of Christianity is highly relevant to our understandings of Israeli state formation, even if, indeed perhaps because of, how progressive scholarship largely ignores it. The aim is not to replace concepts such as ‘settler colony’ or ‘race’, or ‘apartheid’ – those consistently reiterated in left scholarship – but to argue that Christianity is also foundational. We can conceive of Israel as no more (nor less) than a western settler colony engaged in a project of dispossession and genocide against an indigenous population. But, if we can also understand Israel in its historical, regional, and spiritual contexts, our imaginings of Israel’s past, present, and futures are enhanced. The story of Christianity in the making of Israel is a neglected one that this chapter is intended to elucidate.
Page 1. 'IDO NOT ATTACH GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO IT': TAKING NOTE OF 'THE HOLOCAUST&#... more Page 1. 'IDO NOT ATTACH GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO IT': TAKING NOTE OF 'THE HOLOCAUST' IN ENGLISH CASE LAW DIDI HERMAN University of Kent, UK ABSTRACT The first part of this article traces the history of the ...
A unified Europe the economic and political powerhouse of the world looms just over the horiz... more A unified Europe the economic and political powerhouse of the world looms just over the horizon. All that is lacking is a strong personality to galvanise and unify the various factions on the continent. And that person is coming! Charles Dyer, World News and Bible Prophecy ...
A unified Europe the economic and political powerhouse of the world looms just over the horiz... more A unified Europe the economic and political powerhouse of the world looms just over the horizon. All that is lacking is a strong personality to galvanise and unify the various factions on the continent. And that person is coming! Charles Dyer, World News and Bible Prophecy ...
This book illuminates methodology in legal research by bringing together interdisciplinary schola... more This book illuminates methodology in legal research by bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, who employ a diverse set of methodologies, to address a specific shared research challenge: ‘the body’. The contributors were asked a question: if you were invited to contribute to an edited book on ‘the body’, where would you start and then where would you go? The result is a self-reflective discussion of how and where researchers engage with methodological practices. The contributors draw on their own interdisciplinary research experiences to explore how ‘the body’ might be addressed in their work, and the resources they would deploy in order to carry out the task. This ‘book within a book’ is innovative in both content and format. It provides a rare insight into how top interdisciplinary legal scholars go about making decisions about their research. The shared device of ‘the body’ allows the volume to trace a number of rich approaches into the process of research as practiced by these diverse scholars. In presenting thinking and research in action, the volume offers a new, self-reflective view on the much-addressed theme of the body, as well as taking a fresh approach to the historically vexed problem of research methodology in legal studies.
An Unfortunate Coincidence
Jews, Jewishness, and English Law
Provides the first major account ... more An Unfortunate Coincidence
Jews, Jewishness, and English Law
Provides the first major account of legal thinking about Jews and Jewishness in England Takes a sociological approach to show the extent to which racial identities are socially constructed and transmitted in ways that reinforce inequalities Uses a broad range of case studies and historical detail to illustrate a compelling argument about the role of religion and race in determining judicial thinking
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Jews, Jewishness, and English Law
Provides the first major account of legal thinking about Jews and Jewishness in England
Takes a sociological approach to show the extent to which racial identities are socially constructed and transmitted in ways that reinforce inequalities
Uses a broad range of case studies and historical detail to illustrate a compelling argument about the role of religion and race in determining judicial thinking