Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey penned a letter to one of his closest disciples concerning Kabbalah, or what he called the mystical theology of the Jews. Around that same time, one of the leading Puritan ministers developed a messianic theology based in part on the mystical conversion of the Jews. This led to the actual conversion of a Jew in Boston a few decades later, an event that directly produced the first kabbalistic book conceived of and published in America. That book was read by an eventual president of Yale College, who went on to engage in a deep study of Kabbalah that would prod him to involve the likes of Benjamin Franklin, and to give a public oration at Yale in 1781 calling for an infusion of Kabbalah and Jewish thought into the Protestant colleges of America. Kabbalah and the Founding of America traces the influence of Kabbalah on early Christian Americans. It offers a new picture of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange in pre-Revolutionary America, and illuminates how Kabbalah helped to shape early American religious sensibilities. The volume demonstrates that key figures, including the well-known Puritan ministers Cotton Mather and Increase Mather and Yale University President Ezra Stiles, developed theological ideas that were deeply influenced by Kabbalah. Some of them set out to create a more universal Kabbalah, developing their ideas during a crucial time of national myth building, laying down precedents for developing notions of American exceptionalism. This book illustrates how, through fascinating and often surprising events, this unlikely inter-religious influence helped shape the United States and American identity.
Описание: Boaz Huss argues that Jewish mysticism is a modern construct and that the identification of Kabbalah and Hasidism as forms of mysticism has problematically shaped the way in which they are perceived and studied today.
Автор: Parfitt Will Название: Kabbalah for Life ISBN: 0956216234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780956216236 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5173.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Eigen Michael Название: Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis ISBN: 1780490801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780490809 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3980.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is an amplified transcript of two seminars on Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis given for the New York University Postdoctoral Contemplative Studies Project (2010, 2011). The additional eight part Appendix enriches basic themes and is almost a book in itself.
Автор: Halevi, Z`ev Ben Shimon Название: Way of kabbalah ISBN: 1909171107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909171107 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6621.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: In recent years the role of religion in the avant-garde has begun to attract scholarly interest. The present volume focuses on the work of the Romanian Jewish poet and visual artist Isidore Isou (1925–2007) who founded the lettrist movement in the 1940s. The Jewish tradition played a critical part in the Western avant-garde as represented by lettrism. The links between lettrism and Judaism are substantial, yet they have been largely unexplored until now. The study investigates the works of a movement that explicitly emphasises its vanguard position while relying on a medieval religious tradition as a source of radical textual techniques. It accounts for lettrism’s renunciation of mainstream traditions in favour of a subversive tradition, in this case Jewish mysticism. The religious inclination of lettrism also affects the notion of the avant-garde. The elements of the Jewish tradition in Isou’s theories and artistic production evoke a broader framework where religion and experimental art supplement each other.
Автор: , Leeper Babette Название: The Chemistry of Tarot: The Secret Science of Kabbalah ISBN: 1500563420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781500563424 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3785.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Do you find yourself drawn to the mystical Kabbalah?
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In this book, you'll learn:
What the Kabbalah is (and what it isn't )
The Hermetic Qabalah, and its fundamental principles
The core Kabbalistic concepts you need to know to get your practice right
The angels that are most relevant to the practice of Kabbalah
Kabbalah and its divine connection to the stars
The difference between the knowable and unknowable Divine
The five levels of your soul and how we ascend them and descend them
The sacred Kabbalistic texts that form the main source of your Kabbalistic knowledge
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Автор: Magid Shaul Название: Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism ISBN: 1644691159 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644691151 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4574.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice.
Tiberian Hasidism provides a model of an intensive contemplative life that is particularly appealing to contemporary spiritual seekers for many reasons. This volume focuses on the teachings of R. Abraham haCohen of Kalisk ripe for excavation, offering an authentic roadmap to future contemplative pathways ripe for our age.
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