RT Article
T1 The Return of Baal to the Holy Land: Canaanite Reconstructionism among Contemporary Israeli Pagans
JF Nova religio
VO 20
IS 2
SP 59
OP 81
A1 Feraro, Shai
LA English
PB University of Californiarnia Press
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1816087548
AB This article focuses on the recent emergence of Canaanite Reconstructionism in Israel—a miniature movement within the country’s small, but growing, Pagan community. The discourse of Israeli adherents of Canaanite Reconstructionism regarding its links to ancient Canaanite culture and the land—indeed the very soil—of modern-day Israel is highlighted. The development of Israeli Canaanite Reconstructionism is examined in relation to the unique nature of Israeli society and identity politics, as well as to Canaanism, a cultural and ideological movement that climaxed during the 1940s in British Mandate Palestine but declined after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.
K1 Ugaritic
K1 Wiccanate
K1 Neopaganism
K1 Israeli Pagans
K1 Canaanite Reconstructionism
DO 10.1525/nr.2016.20.2.59