Ori Goldberg teaches at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, Connecticut, and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the co-author of Understanding Shiite Leadership: The Art of the Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon (Cambridge, 2014).

'Through an innovative approach to the role of faith in politics, this volume considers political theologies of the real formulated during the twentieth century and proposes that, while religion in the West has been committed to absolutist vision, these theologies have drawn their strength from a commitment to their concrete, divinely infused reality.' Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

• Introduction: religion as a political problem; Part I. The Crisis of the Real: 1. Khomeini at the end of the Iran-Iraq War: the necessity and frustration of faith; Part II. The Subverting Real: Mediating Absolute Perfections: 2. Sharon's speech: the first Israeli narrative: the straight lines of leadership and time; 3. The settler narrative: sovereignty as faith: redemption and the expansion of the real; 4. Gershon Hacohen's theology of the real: subversive mediation; Part III. The Urgency of the Real: 5. ISIS and the establishment of the caliphate: redemption and hollowness.

Ori Goldberg teaches at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, Connecticut, and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the co-author of Understanding Shiite Leadership: The Art of the Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon (Cambridge, 2014).

'Through an innovative approach to the role of faith in politics, this volume considers political theologies of the real formulated during the twentieth century and proposes that, while religion in the West has been committed to absolutist vision, these theologies have drawn their strength from a commitment to their concrete, divinely infused reality.' Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

• Introduction: religion as a political problem; Part I. The Crisis of the Real: 1. Khomeini at the end of the Iran-Iraq War: the necessity and frustration of faith; Part II. The Subverting Real: Mediating Absolute Perfections: 2. Sharon's speech: the first Israeli narrative: the straight lines of leadership and time; 3. The settler narrative: sovereignty as faith: redemption and the expansion of the real; 4. Gershon Hacohen's theology of the real: subversive mediation; Part III. The Urgency of the Real: 5. ISIS and the establishment of the caliphate: redemption and hollowness.

Ori Goldberg teaches at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, Connecticut, and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the co-author of Understanding Shiite Leadership: The Art of the Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon (Cambridge, 2014).

'Through an innovative approach to the role of faith in politics, this volume considers political theologies of the real formulated during the twentieth century and proposes that, while religion in the West has been committed to absolutist vision, these theologies have drawn their strength from a commitment to their concrete, divinely infused reality.' Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

• Introduction: religion as a political problem; Part I. The Crisis of the Real: 1. Khomeini at the end of the Iran-Iraq War: the necessity and frustration of faith; Part II. The Subverting Real: Mediating Absolute Perfections: 2. Sharon's speech: the first Israeli narrative: the straight lines of leadership and time; 3. The settler narrative: sovereignty as faith: redemption and the expansion of the real; 4. Gershon Hacohen's theology of the real: subversive mediation; Part III. The Urgency of the Real: 5. ISIS and the establishment of the caliphate: redemption and hollowness.