Piety and Rebellion - Essays in Hasidism by Shaul Magid (US …, Sembawang

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Pages: 580
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Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice. Many of the essays exhibit a comparative perspective deployed to better articulate the innovative spirit, and traditional challenges, Hasidism presents to the traditional Jewish world. Piety and Rebellion is an attempt to present Hasidism as one case whereby maximalist religion can yield a rebellious challenge to conventional conceptions of religious thought and practice. Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice.AcknowledgementsIntroduction—My Way to (Neo) ḤasidismEarly ḤasidismChapter 1 “What happened, happened”: R. Ya’akov Yosef of Polonnoye on Ḥasidic InterpretationChapter 2 The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the Ẓaddik in Early ḤasidismChapter 3 The Intolerance of Tolerance: Maḥaloket (Controversy) and Redemption in Early ḤasidismChapter 4 The Ritual Is Not the Hunt: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Jewish Ritual as Fantasy in R. Shneur Zalman of LiadyChapter 5 Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav’s “The Tale of the Seven Beggars”Later ḤasidismChapter 6 Modernity as Heresy: The Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth’s Shomer EmunimChapter 7 The Holocaust as Inverted Miracle: R. Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the Divine Nature of Radical EvilChapter 8 The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Ḥabad MessianismChapter 9 Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira’s Eish KodeshChapter 10 American Jewish Fundamentalism: Ḥabad, Satmar, ArtScrollHasidism as a topic of general interestThe author’s previous published work in this areaEmerging interest in comparative analysisThe book’s span from the early period of Hasidism to the presentContinued interest in Jewish mysticismFocus on Religious FundamentalismShaul Magid is the Jay and Jeanie Schottensten Professor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He is a member of the American Academy of Jewish Research. His work spans the areas of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Modern Jewish Thought and Culture.“Some scholars move on from the textual studies that distinguished their early work and flower as pub