The politics of religion and the religion of politics : looking at Israel / Ira Sharkansky.

Religion and politics cannot be separated, in the holy land or elsewhere-- Studying religion and its relevance for politics -- Where judaism prevails -- The religious and political significance of the promised land -- Conditions that produced a Messiah, or yet another Jewish view of Jesus Christ -- Modern Jewish wars between old and new religious movements: ultra-orthodox and the orthodoxversus the conservative and reform -- Representing Judaism in Israel: religiouspolitical parties -- Ambiguities in religion resemble those in politics: one that makes promises for the world to come and another that makes promises for the government to come -- If conditions resemble those that produced a messiah, why are religion and politics relatively moderate?