Jewish Spirituality and Social Transformation
Jewish Spirituality and Social Transformation What does lived religion look like in the 21st century? The Jewish mystical tradition, especially the contemporary movement of Habad Hasidism, embodies…
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Jewish Spirituality and Social Transformation
What does lived religion look like in the 21st century? The Jewish mystical tradition, especially the contemporary movement of Habad Hasidism, embodies an intersection of the particular and the universal that speaks to wider crises in the governing assumptions of western culture and scientific disciplines. Against the polarizations of old and new, religion and secularism, theory and practice, a cadre of internationally renowned scholars interrogate the ways spiritual ideas and practices remain transformative in contemporary society.
These essays exemplify the kind of radical interdisciplinarity that can move through these crises and beyond them, militating against academic hegemonies through the inclusion of indigenous Hasidic voices who speak with equal