Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity
Title | Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Yehudah Mirsky |
Publisher | Academic Studies PRess |
Total Pages | 656 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1644695308 |
Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935) stands as a colossal figure of modern Jewish history and thought. Jurist, mystic, poet, theologian, communal leader, founder of the modern Chief Rabbinate and still the defining thinker of Religious Zionism, he is indispensable for understanding modern Jewish thought, the contemporary State of Israel, and the most fundamental interactions of religion, nationalism, ethics and spirituality. Despite countless studies of him, almost no full-fledged intellectual biography of him exists in any language. This study of the years before his momentous move to Jaffa in 1904, drawing on little-known works, including recently published manuscripts, begins to fill that gap. It traces his life and times in the remarkably intense Rabbinic intellectual milieu of late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, and his path from a profound, regularly rationalist traditionalism, towards a dynamic theology and spiritual practice weaving together Kabbalah, philosophy, universal ethics, and romantic mysticism.
Rav Kook
Title | Rav Kook PDF eBook |
Author | Yehudah Mirsky |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2014-02-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300164246 |
DIV The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life /div
Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah
Title | Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Garb |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-05-15 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0226282074 |
Theory of shamanism, trance, and modern Kabbalah -- The shamanic process: descent and fiery transformations -- Empowerment through trance -- Shamanic Hasidism -- Hasidic trance -- Trance and the nomian.
Mysticism After Modernity
Title | Mysticism After Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Don Cupitt |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 1997-12-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780631207641 |
In Mysticism After Modernity, Don Cupitt argues that the extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested upon a mistake - the belief that there can be meaningful experience prior to language.
The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition
Title | The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Miklós Vassányi |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2017-01-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3319450697 |
This volume examines mystical experiences as portrayed in various ways by “authors” such as philosophers, mystics, psychoanalysts, writers, and peasant women. These “mystical authors” have, throughout the ages, attempted to convey the unsayable through writings, paintings, or oral stories. The immediate experience of God is the primary source and ultimate goal of these mystical expressions. This experience is essentially ineffable, yet all mystical authors, either consciously or unconsciously, feel an urge to convey what they have undergone in the moments of rapture. At the same time they are in the role of intermediaries: the goal of their self-expression – either written, painted or oral – is to make others somehow understand or feel what they have experienced, and to lead others toward the spiritual goal of human life. This volume studies the mystical experiences and the way they have been described or portrayed in West-European culture, from Antiquity to the present, from an interdisciplinary perspective, and approaches the concept of “immediate experience” in various ways.
Judaism Within Modernity
Title | Judaism Within Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Meyer |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780814328743 |
A collection of articles, most of them published previously. The following deal with antisemitism:
Mysticism as Modernity
Title | Mysticism as Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | William Morris Crooke |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9783039105793 |
This work reconsiders the connections between mysticism, nationalism and modernity in twentieth-century German cultures. Disengaging mysticism from occultism, the author creates a new space for reconsidering mysticism's links to larger structures of modernity already at play at the turn of the century. Rather than dismissing mysticism as a strain of anti-modern irrationalism with troubling links to radical politics such as Nazism, the author reconceptualizes modern mysticism as an unwittingly logical expression of the same compression of time and space created by the emergence of the newspaper, radio, railways and telegraph and reflected in the novels of Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch.