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Inner religion in Jewish sources : a phenomenology of inner religious life and its manifestation from the Bible to Hasidic texts / Ron Margolin ; translated by Edward Levin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: EmunotPublisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (xi, 606 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 1644694301
  • 9781644694305
Uniform titles:
  • Dat ha-penimit
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inner religion in Jewish sourcesDDC classification:
  • 204.01 23
LOC classification:
  • B5800 .M3613 2021
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Ritual and Custom -- Chapter 1. Ritual Interiorization and Intent for Commandments -- Part Two: Emotion, Sensation, and Experience -- Introduction: The Meaning of Ecstatic Experience and Mystical Experience in the Study of Religion -- Chapter 2. Prophecy, Dreams, and Other Paranormal Experiences -- Chapter 3. Introspective Contemplation and Inward Focusing -- Part Three: Thinking about the Inner -- Introduction: Interiorization in Religious Thought -- Chapter 4. The Conceptual Interiorization of Myth and Law -- Chapter 5. Existential Aspects of Inner Religious Life -- Chapter 6. Epistemological Interiorization -- Afterword: The Immanent Testimony to the Transcendental -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Index of Sources
Summary: "Is Judaism essentially a religion of laws and commandments? Or do its sources reflect significant attempts at addressing the individual's inner life, existential crises and spiritual experiences? Inner Religion in Jewish Sources offers a comprehensive exploration of inner life in the Jewish sources from the Bible to rabbinic literature, from Medieval Jewish philosophy to Kabbalistic writings and the Hasidic world, where it gained particularly potent expressions. Addressing the issue from the perspective of comparative religion, it seeks to emphasize the commonality of processes of interiorization in various religious traditions, suggesting an innovative angle both in the study of religion and of religious thought. In doing so, it sheds new light on the inner aspect of Jewish religious life, which is all too often hidden behind the external and institutional aspects of the Jewish religion"-- Provided by publisher.
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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)2911383

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Is Judaism essentially a religion of laws and commandments? Or do its sources reflect significant attempts at addressing the individual's inner life, existential crises and spiritual experiences? Inner Religion in Jewish Sources offers a comprehensive exploration of inner life in the Jewish sources from the Bible to rabbinic literature, from Medieval Jewish philosophy to Kabbalistic writings and the Hasidic world, where it gained particularly potent expressions. Addressing the issue from the perspective of comparative religion, it seeks to emphasize the commonality of processes of interiorization in various religious traditions, suggesting an innovative angle both in the study of religion and of religious thought. In doing so, it sheds new light on the inner aspect of Jewish religious life, which is all too often hidden behind the external and institutional aspects of the Jewish religion"-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2021).

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Ritual and Custom -- Chapter 1. Ritual Interiorization and Intent for Commandments -- Part Two: Emotion, Sensation, and Experience -- Introduction: The Meaning of Ecstatic Experience and Mystical Experience in the Study of Religion -- Chapter 2. Prophecy, Dreams, and Other Paranormal Experiences -- Chapter 3. Introspective Contemplation and Inward Focusing -- Part Three: Thinking about the Inner -- Introduction: Interiorization in Religious Thought -- Chapter 4. The Conceptual Interiorization of Myth and Law -- Chapter 5. Existential Aspects of Inner Religious Life -- Chapter 6. Epistemological Interiorization -- Afterword: The Immanent Testimony to the Transcendental -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Index of Sources