TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huss,Boaz
AU  - Pasi,Marco
AU  - Stuckrad,Kocku von
TI  - Kabbalah and modernity: interpretations, transformations, adaptations 
T2  - Aries book series,
SN  - 9789004182875
AV  - BM526 .K315 2010eb
U1  - 296.8/330904 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Cabala
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Kabbale
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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