Kabbalah and Jewish Modernity

Kabbalah and Jewish Modernity
ISBN-10
1800857306
ISBN-13
9781800857308
Category
Religion
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
2016-05-19
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Author
Roni Weinstein

Description

Roni Weinstein’s sociological reading of the kabbalistic ideas of the early modern period suggests that they gained acceptance because they met the needs of contemporary Jewish society. Although these ideas were presented as continuing a tradition, their goal was reformation: few aspects of Jewish life were not changed in consequence. This broadly based and innovative study challenges accepted ideas on the origins of Jewish modernity, and also shows how Counter-Reformation Catholicism affected these developments.

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