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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Encountering traditions
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Encountering traditions.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : incarnation and incarnational thinking -- Divinization and incarnational thinking in Hasidism: an overview -- Charisma speaking: uniqueness, incarnation, and sacred language (lashon ha-kodesh) in Nahman of Bratslav's self-fashioning -- Jewish ethics through a Hasidic lens: incarnation, the law, and the universal -- Malkhut as kenosis: malkhut and the zaddik in Yaʻakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezritch's Shaʻarei Gan Eden -- "Brother where art thou?": reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev -- Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the specter of Hasidism. |
Summary |
Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude toward ritual and faith. Shaul Magid argues that the Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe constitutes an alternative ""modernity, "" one that opens a new window on Jewish theological history. Unlike Judaism in German lands, Hasidism did not develop under a ""Christian gaze"" and had no need to be a. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Hasidism -- Doctrines.
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Hasidism -- Doctrines. |
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Hasidism. |
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Incarnation.
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Incarnation. |
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Mysticism -- Judaism -- History.
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Mysticism -- Judaism. |
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History. |
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Judaism. |
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Relations. |
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Christianity. |
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Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-
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Since 1750 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Magid, Shaul, 1958- Hasidism incarnate 9780804791304 (DLC) 2014035430 (OCoLC)880237419 |
ISBN |
9780804793469 (electronic book) |
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0804793468 (electronic book) |
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9780804791304 |
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0804791309 |
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