Israelism in Modern Britain

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p>