Palestinian evangelicals and global evangelicalism : an ethnography of unequal encounter / Lena Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Lena, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--Palestine.

Evangelicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This volume examines how power shapes what is considered 'correct' or 'orthodox' theology in global evangelicalism and provides a sketch of the different types of powers involved.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Detailed Contents

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Palestinian Evangelicals and Global Evangelicalism

The Powers That Shape Global Evangelicalism

Why Israel-Palestine?

Palestinian Christians beyond the National Subject

Methodology, Positionality, and Field Sites

Glossary

1 "You Are a Blessing to Us!"-Global Evangelicalism and the Powers of Orthodoxy

The Anthropology of Christianity and Power

Evangelicalism as a "Discursive Tradition"

"I Will Bless Those Who Bless You"

The "Blessing" of the Western Visitor

The Cost of Defying the "Blessing"

2 "Come and See": Palestinian Evangelical Positioning toward External Partners

Historical Background: The Need for External Partners

Challenging Church Structures

The Challenging Socioeconomic Situation of Palestinian Israeli Evangelicals

Palestinian Evangelical Responses: A Public Facing Church

Contextual Theological Responses

Charismatic Theological Responses

Training Palestinian Evangelical Leaders

Managing Those Whom "God Has Put Israel on Their Heart"

Western Responses to Palestinian Evangelical Positioning

The Struggle to Be an Equal Part of the "Global"

3 "Walking Where Jesus Walked": Evangelical Engagement with the Territory of Israel-Palestine

Nazareth Village: Of Representation and Reality

Visiting the Tent of Nations

Evangelical Ways of Seeing the Landscape

Ways of Seeing I: Recognition of the Familiar

Ways of Seeing II: "Seeing Is Owning"

The "Mid-Range" Panorama

Holy Land People as Traditional Natives

Flora and Fauna as Ideology and Resistance

How Nature "Speaks Back"

Hyper-Israel and the Representation of Palestine

4 "Citizens of Heaven" and Citizens of Israel-Palestine.

The Israeli Religious Tribunal System and Palestinian Israeli Evangelicals

The Education System in Israel

The 2015 Strike of the Christian Schools

"It Was Your Men Who Helped!"

Palestinian Evangelicals as a "Minority of a Minority of a Minority"

5 Christ at the Checkpoint: Shifting the Contact Zone

Christ at the Checkpoint: Reframing the Encounter

The Christ at the Checkpoint Manifesto

Manifesto Point 3: Rethinking Racial Categories

Manifesto Point 9: The Occupation as Core Issue

Manifesto Point 10: Relationship to Jews

Empowering Palestinian Christians

Shifting the "Contact Zone"

6 Geometries of Power in "Global" Evangelicalism

Emic and Etic Understandings of "Global Christianity"

Hillsong-A Branded Mega-Church

The Kufiyah and the Cross Conference

"Israel" in Local and Global Narratives

Hillsong "Come and See"

Why did Hillsong Re-Record Songs in Israel?

Contesting Imaginaries of the "Local" within Global Evangelicalism

7 Conclusion

The Uneven Co-Constitution of "Global" Evangelicalism

Epilogue

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 18, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-780024-6

0-19-780025-4

0-19-780026-2

9780197800249

OCLC:

1564842091