Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations

Boʿaz Hus, Marco Pasi, Kocku Von Stuckrad

BRILL, 2010 - Religion - 436 pages

The persistence of kabbalistic groups in the twentieth century has largely been ignored or underestimated by scholars of religion. Only recently have scholars began to turn their attention to the many-facetted roles that kabbalistic doctrines and schools have played in nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture. Often, and necessarily, this new interest and openness went along with a contextualization and re-valuation of earlier scholarly approaches to kabbalah. This volume brings together leading representatives of this ongoing debate in order to break new ground for a better understanding and conceptualization of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.

Contents

• Kabbalah and Modernity: 1
• Philology as Kabbalah: 13
• For a New Appreciation of: 29
• On the Dislocation of Past Primacy: 47
• Kabbalah and Secret Societies in Russia Eighteenth: 79
• Adolphe Franck: 107
• Paul Vulliaud 18751950 and Jewish Kabbalah: 129
• Oriental Kabbalah and the Parting of East and West in the Early: 151
• Theosophy and Kabbalah: 167
• The Kabbalistic Yeshiva: 197
• The Status of the NonJewish Other in the Apocalyptic: 221
• Marriage and Sexual Behavior in the Teachings of: 259
• The Playful Transgression: 283
• Erwin NeutzskyWulff and the Neurological Landscape of: 301
• PART IV: 313
• Ernst Jünger: 329
• The American Spiritual and Philosophical: 357
• Contemporary Jewish Mysticism and Palestinian Suicide: 389
• Notes on Contributors: 415
• Index of Persons: 423
• Index of Subjects: 433

About the author

Boaz Huss is professor of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on the Zohar and its reception, the genealogies of Jewish mysticism and kabbalah studies, and on modern and postmodern kabbalah formations.
Marco Pasi is assistant professor of history of Hermetic philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include the history of magic, the history of occultism, and the relationship between art and esotericism.
Kocku von Stuckrad is professor of religious studies at the University of Groningen. In his work he focuses particularly on esoteric discourses in Western culture, astrology, shamanism, and on topics related to religion, nature, and science.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations; Volume 10 of Aries Book Series
• Editors: Boʿaz Hus, Marco Pasi, Kocku Von Stuckrad
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: BRILL, 2010
• ISBN: 9004182845, 9789004182844
• Length: 436 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Religion / History; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion / Reference