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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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Celestial Choirmaster: The Liturgical Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch and Merkabah Tradition [PDF]

, 2004
This article investigates the roots of Enoch-Metatron’s liturgical office of celestial choirmaster which plays a prominent role in the Merkabah tradition.
Orlov, Andrei
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The theological antinomism in ‘The castle’ of Franz Kafka and its relationship with the heretical Kabbalah

Matraga, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to identify and reflect on Franz Kafka’s The Castle (2010), the intersection between the problem of the crisis of tradition, raised by Walter Benjamin (1987) and Gershom Scholem (1999), and its development in the dialectic of
Jefferson Eduardo da Paz Barbosa
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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Causes and motives of getting muslim of Christians and Jews by sufist muslim from perspectives of the texts of Islamic sufism [PDF]

نثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2018
In the original texts of Islamic mysticism, the fables are repeatedly seen in which the Jews and Christians who were in relation with the Muslims and especially Muslim Sufis in any reason, became Muslim.
mohsen pourmokhtar
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Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Though Eriugena's affinities with several Hindu traditions are clear, this article offers to my knowledge the first detailed discussion of Eriugena's theology in relation to any Indic theological school, here, the nondualist Śaiva tradition known as the Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) lineage.
Matthew Z. Vale
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Menorah Review (No. 39, Winter, 1997) [PDF]

, 1997
An Interpretive Methodology With Supersessionist Forebodings -- Through a Glass Brightly: Seeing the Unseeable -- The 12th Annual Selma and Jacob Brown Lecture -- Controversy and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Book Listing -- Jewish Civics -- Leah -- Book ...

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Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
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Menorah Review (No. 54, Winter, 2002) [PDF]

, 2002
Halakha, Hermeneutics and History -- Go -- Dialogue in Pursuit of Social Action -- Dream Joggings -- Rabbis, Society and Historiography -- Was Herod a Jew?

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