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Author Garb, Jonathan, author.

Title A history of Kabbalah : from the early modern period to the present day / Jonathan Garb
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Premodern and Modern Kabbalah: Breaks and Continuities -- Introduction -- Autonomy of Modern Kabbalah -- Continuities: Exegesis, Gender, Theurgy and Magic -- Chains of Textual Continuity -- Comparative Reflections -- Conclusion: Kabbalah in Transition to Modernity -- 2. Safedian Revolution of the Sixteenth Century -- Earlier Centers -- Karo and His Circle -- Cordovero and His Circle -- Luria and His Circle -- Safed in Europe -- Conclusion: Safed as a Mystical Culture -- 3. Kabbalistic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century -- Sabbateanism: Theology, Ideology and Sociology -- Finalization and Triumph of the Safedian Canon -- Philosophical and Cultural Reception -- Critical Responses -- Nationalization of Kabbalah -- Conclusion -- 4. Canonization: The Eighteenth Century -- Messianism and the Residual Presence of Sabbateanism -- Hasidism: Theology, Ideology and Sociology Near Eastern Hegemony of R. Shalom Shar'abi -- R. Eliyahu of Vilna and His School -- Lesser-Known Tributaries -- Eighteenth-Century Kabbalah as Split Canonization -- 5. Beginnings of Globalization: The Nineteenth Century -- Geopolitics and the Kabbalah: An Overview of the Century -- Changing of the Guard in Hasidism -- Moderation of the Vilna Gaon's School -- Eastern European Immigrations to Ottoman Palestine -- Continuities and Diversities in the Near East -- Kabbalah, Globalization and Culture -- Kabbalah at the Turn of the Century -- 6. Destruction and Triumph: The Twentieth Century -- Overview -- Kabbalah of the Land of Israel -- Last Days of European Kabbalah -- Modernization of Hasidism -- New Centers of Kabbalah -- Kabbalah in Postwar Global Mysticism -- Kabbalah in the Early Twenty-First Century -- Conclusion -- 7. Recurrent Themes: Gender, Messianism and Experience? -- Some Shared Themes Three Periods of Kabbalistic Modernity -- Areas for Future Research -- Coda
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2020)
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Subject Cabala -- History
Hasidism -- History
Cabala
Hasidism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020009218
ISBN 9781108889780
1108889786
9781316597071
1316597075
9781316607022
131660702X