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Kabbalah and modernity : interpretations, transformations, adaptations / edited by Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi and Kocku von Stuckrad.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aries book series ; v. 10.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 436 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004182875
  • 900418287X
  • 1282952463
  • 9781282952461
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kabbalah and modernity.DDC classification:
  • 296.8/330904 22
LOC classification:
  • BM526 .K315 2010eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Cover13; -- Contents -- Introduction: Kabbalah and Modernity -- PART I KABBALA SCHOLARSHIP: A REAPPRAISAL -- Philology as Kabbalah -- Beyond the Burden of Idealism: For a New Appreciation of the Visual Lore in the Kabbalah -- The Future of the Kabbalah: On the Dislocation of Past Primacy, the Problem of Evil, and the Future of Illusions -- PART II ROMANTIC AND ESOTERIC READINGS OF KABBALAH -- Kabbalah and Secret Societies in Russia (Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries) -- The Beginnings of Occultist Kabbalah: Adolphe Franck and Eliphas L233;vi -- Paul Vulliaud (18758211;1950) and Jewish Kabbalah -- Oriental Kabbalah and the Parting of East and West in the Early Theosophical Society -- 8220;The Sufi Society from America8221;: Theosophy and Kabbalah in Poona in the Late Nineteenth Century -- PART III MODERN KABBALISTIC SCHOOLS -- The Imagined Decline of Kabbalah: The Kabbalistic Yeshiva Sha8216;ar ha-Shamayim and Kabbalah in Jerusalem in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- The Status of the (Non)Jewish Other in the Apocalyptic Messianism of Menahem Mendel Schneerson -- Marriage and Sexual Behavior in the Teachings of the Kabbalah Centre -- Madonna and the Shekhinah: The Playful Transgression of Gender Roles in Popular Culture -- Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff and the Neurological Landscape of the Sefirot -- PART IV KABBALAH AND POLITICS -- 8216;The Great Goal of the Political Will Is Leviathan8217;: Ernst J252;nger and the Cabala of Enmity -- Pragmatism and Piety: The American Spiritual and Philosophical Roots of Jewish Renewal -- Contemporary Jewish Mysticism and Palestinian Suicide Bombing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.
Summary: This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)350927

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cover13; -- Contents -- Introduction: Kabbalah and Modernity -- PART I KABBALA SCHOLARSHIP: A REAPPRAISAL -- Philology as Kabbalah -- Beyond the Burden of Idealism: For a New Appreciation of the Visual Lore in the Kabbalah -- The Future of the Kabbalah: On the Dislocation of Past Primacy, the Problem of Evil, and the Future of Illusions -- PART II ROMANTIC AND ESOTERIC READINGS OF KABBALAH -- Kabbalah and Secret Societies in Russia (Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries) -- The Beginnings of Occultist Kabbalah: Adolphe Franck and Eliphas L233;vi -- Paul Vulliaud (18758211;1950) and Jewish Kabbalah -- Oriental Kabbalah and the Parting of East and West in the Early Theosophical Society -- 8220;The Sufi Society from America8221;: Theosophy and Kabbalah in Poona in the Late Nineteenth Century -- PART III MODERN KABBALISTIC SCHOOLS -- The Imagined Decline of Kabbalah: The Kabbalistic Yeshiva Sha8216;ar ha-Shamayim and Kabbalah in Jerusalem in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- The Status of the (Non)Jewish Other in the Apocalyptic Messianism of Menahem Mendel Schneerson -- Marriage and Sexual Behavior in the Teachings of the Kabbalah Centre -- Madonna and the Shekhinah: The Playful Transgression of Gender Roles in Popular Culture -- Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff and the Neurological Landscape of the Sefirot -- PART IV KABBALAH AND POLITICS -- 8216;The Great Goal of the Political Will Is Leviathan8217;: Ernst J252;nger and the Cabala of Enmity -- Pragmatism and Piety: The American Spiritual and Philosophical Roots of Jewish Renewal -- Contemporary Jewish Mysticism and Palestinian Suicide Bombing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.

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This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.