Kabbalah and modernity: interpretations, transformations, adaptations
by Huss, Boaz Pasi, Marco Stuckrad, Kocku von
Only recently have scholars began to turn their attention to the many-faceted roles that kabbalistic doctrines and schools have played in 19th- and 20th-century culture. This volume outlines the role of kabbalah in modern religions and intellectual and political discourse.
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- Full title :Kabbalah and modernity : interpretations, transformations, adaptations / edited by Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi and Kocku von Stuckrad.
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Only recently have scholars began to turn their attention to the many-faceted roles that kabbalistic doctrines and schools have played in 19th- and 20th-century culture. This volume outlines the role of kabbalah in modern religions and intellectual and political discourse.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 436 pages ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004182844, 9004182845
- oclc:ocn504281137
- LC Classification:BM526
- Dewey Decimal:296.8/330904
Table of Contents
Philology as Kabbalah / Andreas B. Kilcher -- Beyond the burden of idealism : for a new appreciation of the visual lore in the Kabbalah / Giulio Busi -- Future of the Kabbalah : on the dislocation of past primacy, the problem of evil, and the future of illusions / Eric Jacobson -- Kabbalah and secret societies in Russia (Eighteenth to twentieth centuries) / Konstantin Burmistrov -- Beginnings of occultist Kabbalah : Adolphe Franck and Eliphas Lé́vi / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Paul Vulliaud (1875-1950) and Jewish Kabbalah / Jean-Pierre Brach -- Oriental Kabbalah and the parting of East and West in the early Theosophical Society / Marco Pasi -- "The Sufi society from America" : Theosophy and Kabbalah in Poona in the late nineteenth century / Boaz Huss -- Imagined decline of Kabbalah : the Kabbalistic yeshiva Sha'ar ha-Shamayim and Kabbalah in Jerusalem in the beginning of the Twentieth century / Jonathan Meir -- Status of the (non)Jewish other in the apocalyptic messianism of Menahem Mendel Schneerson / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Marriage and sexual behavior in the teachings of the Kabbalah centre / Jody Myers Madonna and the Shekhinah : the playful transgression of gender roles in popular c…
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