TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bilu,Yoram
TI  - With us more than ever: making the absent Rebbe present in messianic Chabad 
SN  - 1503612422
AV  - BM755.S288 
U1  - 296.8/3322 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Schneerson, Menachem Mendel,
KW  - Habad
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Hasidism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Jewish messianic movements
KW  - Coutumes et pratiques
KW  - Hassidisme
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Messianisme juif
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cults
KW  - fast
KW  - Book Keywords: Messianism
KW  - Chabad
KW  - Meshichist cosmology
KW  - Meshichist phenomenology
KW  - Meshichistim. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
KW  - media studies
KW  - virtuality
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chabad and the messianic idea -- Meshichist sociology -- Writing to the Rebbe : the holy letters oracle -- Sensing the Rebbe : traces and practices of embodiment -- Seeing the Rebbe I : Chabad's visual culture -- Seeing the Rebbe II : dream and waking apparitions -- Schneersoncentrism : the Rebbe steers the world -- The apotheosis of the Rebbe -- "To make many more Menachem Mendels" : creation and procreation in messianic Chabad -- Holy place and holy time in Meshichist Chabad -- The omnipresence of absence : messianism in the technological age -- Meshichists, Christians, Sabbateans, and popular culture heroes -- From tzadik to Messiah : comparing Chabad and Breslov
N2  - "The messianic surge that engulfed Chabad (the Lubavitch Hasidic movement) in the last generations hardly subsided after the 1994 death of the movement's last leader and designated Messiah. Focusing on the radically messianic Hasidim (meshichistim) who deny that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneershon has ever died, this book investigates the ways followers make their absent Rebbe present. It shows how the meshichistim, recurring to a rich repertoire of both traditional and ultramodern means, are able to engage in ongoing dialogue with the Rebbe, to render him "portable" and embodied, and even to see and hear him. Their toolkit includes the dialectical mysticism of Chabad, which denies the ontological status of the world; practices of embodiment, based on a ritual ecology replete with signs and traces of the Rebbe; and a visual culture that makes the Rebbe's ubiquitous portraits and videos the focus of an elaborate cult. The virtual Rebbe that emerges as a result-one who is multiple, visible, accessible, and highly decentralized-helps us chart the religious horizons open to a twenty-first-century messianic movement"--
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