Garb A History of Kabbalah

From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-88978-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
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This volume offers a narrative history of modern Kabbalah, from the sixteenth century to the present. Covering all sub-periods, schools, and figures, Jonathan Garb demonstrates how Kabbalah expanded over the last few centuries, and how it became an important player, first in the European, subsequently in global cultural and intellectual domains. Indeed, study of the Kabbalah can be found on virtually every continent and in many languages, despite of the destruction of many centres in the mid-twentieth century. Garb explores the sociological, psychological, scholastic and ritual dimensions of kabbalistic ways of life in their geographical and cultural contexts. Focusing on several important mystical and literary figures, he shows how modern Kabbalah is both deeply embedded in modern Jewish life, yet has become an independent, professionalized sub-world. He also traces how Kabbalah was influenced by, and contributed to the process of modernization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garb, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Garb, Jonathan
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).