Abrahamic structures of the global domain

The global epoch was characterised by the resurgence of religious phenomena, and it was from the wellspring of religion and spirituality that new imaginings of the global vista could arise. This chapter expounds a theory of the global domain rooted in ethno-religious identity, tradition, and mysticism. It poses the basic and yet neglected question of why, from the perspective of Jewish belief and understanding, did Islam and Christianity come into existence at all. This chapter describes aspects of the structure, ethos, and perception of the constellation of Abrahamic peoples as an exemplar of the potential ways of imagining and representing the global domain in relation to the Jewish people. It proposes that the configuration of three peoples – Jews, Christians, and Muslims – constituted a discrete domain, formed and defined through space-time , and characterised by forms of ethos and dominion. A theory of ‘ethic as structure’ is expounded, being the idea that spatial structure could be linked to a prevailing ethic.