Kabbalah and the Spiritual Quest: The Kabbalah Centre in America

Esoteric mystical traditions are often the well-kept secrets of a small elite, and Kabbalah—the ancient Jewish mystical tradition—is no exception. The transmutation of Jewish mystical teachings to a universal source of wisdom and healing through the auspices of the Kabbalah Centre provides a fascina...

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Main Author: Gubkin, Liora (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2010
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 124-126
Review of:Kabbalah and the spiritual quest (Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007) (Gubkin, Liora)
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Summary:Esoteric mystical traditions are often the well-kept secrets of a small elite, and Kabbalah—the ancient Jewish mystical tradition—is no exception. The transmutation of Jewish mystical teachings to a universal source of wisdom and healing through the auspices of the Kabbalah Centre provides a fascinating episode for scholars of both Judaism and sociology of religion. In Kabbalah and the Spiritual Quest, Jody Myers offers a portrait of the Kabbalah Centre in America: delineating its history and explaining its main teachings, especially its understanding of individual and communal healing., A historian by training, Myers provides a service to sociologists of religion by analyzing the Kabbalah Centre as a New Religious Movement.
ISSN:1759-8818
Contains:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq007