Jonathan Garb (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

A History of Kabbalah

From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A narrative history of modern Kabbalah, from the sixteenth century till today, in the general context of modernization. A History of Kabbalah will be interest students, scholars, and laypeople in Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, and intellectual and cultural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781316607022
• ISBN-10: 131660702X
• Artikelnr.: 68887393

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Garb is the Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University. In 2014, he received the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities' Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Research. His latest books include: Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah (2011), Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Pre-Modern and Modern Kabbalah: Breaks and Continuities
2. The Safedian Revolution of the Sixteenth Century
3. The Kabbalistic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
4. Canonization: The Eighteenth Century
5. Beginnings of Globalization: The Nineteenth Century
6. Destruction and Triumph: The Twentieth Century
7. Recurrent Themes: Gender, Messianism and Experience?
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index