Religious modernism, nationalism, and antisemitism in Polish Catholicism and Egyptian Islam
The two regions most commonly associated with antisemitism, whether fairly or not, are interwar Eastern Europe and, more recently, the Arab Middle East. However, while East European antisemitism is usually seen as "primordial" and having deep roots in Christianity, its Middle Eastern count...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Creighton University
2014
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2014, Volume: 16 |
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B Lutosławski B 1880-1924 B Catholic Church; Poland B Antisemitism B Politics and Christianity B Bannā B Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt) B Modernism; Catholic Church B 1906-1949 B Politics and Islam B Qutb B 1903-1966 B Sayyid B Islam; Egypt B Kraków-Kazimierz B Modernism; Islam |
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| Summary: | The two regions most commonly associated with antisemitism, whether fairly or not, are interwar Eastern Europe and, more recently, the Arab Middle East. However, while East European antisemitism is usually seen as "primordial" and having deep roots in Christianity, its Middle Eastern counterpart is generally perceived as exquisitely modern and having relatively little to do with traditional Islam. Therefore, even though Christian East European and Muslim Middle Eastern variants of antisemitism may make use of the similar myths and tropes, their respective histories and underlying causes appear to be quite different, and it may seem that little could be gained from studying them side by side. This paper presents the argument that studying East European and Middle Eastern antisemitism side by side is not only methodologically admissible but can lead to illuminating insights. The paper focuses on the two regions' largest states, Poland and Egypt, and lays the groundwork for a more detailed examination of the manner in which Christian and Islamic traditions interacted with modern nationalist ideologies in the discursive construction of "the Jews" as a universal enemy. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-5658 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10504/64340 |