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Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays Habad Thought and History

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Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays Habad Thought and History
Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays Habad Thought and History

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Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays Habad Thought and History

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The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women.
Hasidism Beyond Modernity
provides a critical,
thematic study of the movement from its beginnings, showing how its unusual qualities evolved. Topics investigated include the theoretical underpinning of the outreach ethos; the turn towards women in the twentieth century; new attitudes to non-Jews; the role of the individual in the hasidic collective; spiritual contemplation in the context of modernity; the quest for inclusivism in the face of prevailing schismatic processes;
messianism in both spiritual and political forms; and the direction of the movement after the passing of its seventh
rebbe
,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1994. Attention is given to many contrasts:
pre-modern, modern, and postmodern conceptions of Judaism; the clash between maintaining an enclave and outreach models of Jewish society; particularist and universalist trends; and the subtle interplay of mystical faith and rationality.
Some of the chapters are new; others, published in an earlier form, have been updated to take account of recent scholarship. This book presents an in-depth study of an intriguing movement which takes traditional hasidism beyond modernity.

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