Israelism in Modern Britain

Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000172362
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Theology & Religion
• Categoría: Religion, Politics & State

This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK. Remarkably, this subject has had very little attention: remarkable, because at its height in the post-war era, the British-Israelist movement could claim to have tens of thousands of card-carrying adherents and counted amongst its membership admirals, peers, television personalities, MPs and members of the royal family including the King of England.

British-Israelism is the belief that the people of Britain are the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. It originated in the writing of a Scottish historian named John Wilson, who toured the country in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Providing a guide to the history of British-Israelism as a movement, including the formation of the British-Israel World Federation, Covenant Publishing, and other institutions, the book explores the complex ways in which British-Israelist thought mirrored developments in ethnic British nationalism during the Twentieth Century.

A detailed study on the subject of British-Israelism is necessary, because British-Israelists constitute an essential element of British life during the most violent and consequential century of its history. As such, this will be a vital resource for any scholar of Minority Religions, New Religious Movements, Nationalism and British Religious History.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 What do British-Israelists believe?
• 2 A history of British-Israelism in the twentieth century
• 3 British-Israelism and the Jews
• 4 British-Israelism and the British Empire
• 5 British-Israelism and Ireland
• 6 British-Israelism and the state of Israel
• 7 British-Israelism and Russia
• 8 British-Israelism and the European Union
• Conclusion
• Select bibliography
• Index