{"product_id":"kabbalah-in-america-ancient-lore-in-the-new-world-9789004428133","title":"Kabbalah in America: Ancient Lore in the New World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. Until recently, Kabbalah studies have not extensively covered America, despite America’s centrality in modern and contemporary formations. There exist scattered treatments, but no inclusive expositions. This volume most certainly fills the gap.    It is comprised of 21 articles in eight sections, including Kabbalah in Colonial America; Nineteenth-Century Western Esotericism; The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface; Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars; The Post-War Counterculture; Liberal American Denominationalism; Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism and the ‘Other’; and Contemporary American Ritual and Thought. This volume will be sure to set the tone for all future scholarship on American Kabbalah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Contributors    1 Introduction: On the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America   Brian Ogren    Part 1: Kabbalah in Colonial America  2 “They Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentiles”: Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination   Michael Hoberman    3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity   Brian Ogren    Part 2: Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric Trends  4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emerson’s Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America   Clémence Boulouque    5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America   Boaz Huss    6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor   Vadim Putzu    Part 3: The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface  7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in America—Max Wolff, The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)   Peter Lanchidi    8 Isidor Kalisch’s Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy   Jonathan D. Sarna    Part 4: Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars  9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America   Eliyahu Stern    10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism   Moshe Idel    Part 5: The Post-War Counterculture  11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsberg’s Relation to Kabbalah   Yaakov Ariel    12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast   Pinchas Giller    13 Aryeh Kaplan’s Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy   Alan Brill    Part 6: Liberal American Denominationalism  14 American Reform Judaism’s Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weiner’s Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics   Dana Evan Kaplan    15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah   Daniel Horwitz    Part 7: Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism, and the ‘Other’  16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism   Ariel Evan Mayse    17 “The Lower Half of the Globe”: Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Vision for Judaism’s American Era   Philip Wexler and Eli Rubin    18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner’s Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology   Elliot R. Wolfson    Part 8: Contemporary American Ritual and Thought  19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach   Jody Myers    20 Everything is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos   Marla Segol    21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America   Ron Margolin","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210798784855,"sku":"9789004428133","price":165.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kabbalah-in-america-ancient-lore-in-the-new-world-9789004428133","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}