Mystifying Kabbalah: academic scholarship, national theology, and new age spirituality
This text offers a study of the genealogy of the concept of 'Jewish mysticism.' It examines the major developments in the academic study of Jewish mysticism and its impact on modern Kabbalistic movements in the contexts of Jewish nationalism and New Age spirituality. Its central argument i...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Hus, Boʿaz, 1959-, Mystifying Kabbalah] (2022) (Brown, Jeremy P.)
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| Series/Journal: | Oxford studies in Western esotericism
Oxford scholarship online |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Mysticism
/ Kaballah
B Abulʿafyah, Avraham ben Shemuʾel 1240-1291 / Cabala |
| Further subjects: | B
Cabala
B Mysticism Judaism History |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9780190086961 |
| Summary: | This text offers a study of the genealogy of the concept of 'Jewish mysticism.' It examines the major developments in the academic study of Jewish mysticism and its impact on modern Kabbalistic movements in the contexts of Jewish nationalism and New Age spirituality. Its central argument is that Jewish mysticism is a modern discursive construct and that the identification of Kabbalah and Hasidism as forms of mysticism, which appeared for the first time in the nineteenth century and became prevalent since the early twentieth, shaped the way in which Kabbalah and Hasidism are perceived and studied today. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 12, 2020) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-008699-2 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190086961.001.0001 |
