Redefining Kabbalah: Combinative American Religion at the Kabbalah Centre

This article argues for understanding the practices of the Kabbalah Centre as "combinative American religion," Catherine Albanese's theory of metaphysical American religion, which better reveals its founder's and practitioners' negotiation of the United States in the twentie...

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Veröffentlicht in:Shofar. - Purdue University Press, 2019. - 38(2020), 1, Seite 76-108
1. Verfasser: Carr, Jessica (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Shofar
Schlagworte:Kabbalah mysticism United States America NRM New Religious Movements combinative religion
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