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Auteur(s) : Huss, Boaz (1959-....)
Titre(s) : Mystifying Kabbalah [Texte imprimé] : academic scholarship, national theology, & new age spirituality / Boaz Huss
Publication : New York, (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. ([VII]-185 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in western esotericism
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in Western esotericism
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p.161-177. Index
"The book offers a study of the genealogy of the concept of "Jewish mysticism". It
examines the major developments in the academic study of Jewish mysticism and its
impact on modern Kabbalistic movements in the contexts of Jewish nationalism and New
Age spirituality. Its central argument is that Jewish mysticism is a modern discursive
construct and that the identification of Kabbalah and Hasidism as forms of mysticism,
which appeared for the first time in the nineteenth century and became prevalent since
the early twentieth, shaped the way in which Kabbalah and Hasidism are perceived and
studied today. The notion of Jewish mysticism was established when western scholars
accepted the modern idea that mysticism is a universal religious phenomenon of a direct
experience of a divine or transcendent reality and applied it to Kabbalah and Hasidism.
The term "Jewish mysticism" gradually became the defining category in the modern academic
research of these topics. Mystifying Kabbalah examines the emergence of the category
Jewish Mysticism and of the ensuing perception that Kabbalah and Hassidism are Jewish
manifestations of a universal mystical phenomenon. It investigates the establishment
of the academic field devoted to the research of Jewish mysticism, and delineates
the major developments in this field. The book clarifies the historical, cultural,
and political contexts that led to the identification of Kabbalah and Hassidism as
Jewish mysticism, exposing the underlying ideological and theological presuppositions
and revealing the impact of this "mystification" on contemporary forms of Kabbalah
and Hasidism"
Sujet(s) : Mystique -- Judaïsme -- Histoire
Kabbale
Indice(s) Dewey :
296.712 (23e éd.) = Mysticisme (judaïsme)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190086992 (erroné). - ISBN 9780190086985 (erroné). - ISBN 978-0-19-008696-1
(rel.)
EAN 9780190086961
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46700736f
Notice n° :
FRBNF46700736
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Chapter 1: The modern concept of mysticism ; Chapter 2: Jewish mysticism and national
theology ; Chapter 3: The new age of Kabbalah research ; Chapter 4: "Authorized
guardians": the rejection of occult and contemporary Kabbalah ; Chapter 5: The mystification
of Kabbalah: Abraham Abulafia in contemporary Kabbalah.
