1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459104803321

Autore

Fishbane Eitan P. <1975->

Titolo

As light before dawn [[electronic resource] ] : the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / / Eitan P. Fishbane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8047-7487-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Disciplina

296.1/6

Soggetti

Cabala - History - To 1500

Mysticism - Judaism - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  (p. [285]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship -- The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority -- Intentions and the recovery of meaning -- Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God -- Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience -- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union.

Sommario/riassunto

As Light Before Dawn explores the mystical thought of Isaac ben Samuel of Akko, a major medieval kabbalist whose work has until now received relatively little attention. Through consideration of an extensive literary corpus, including much that still remains in manuscript, this study examines an array of themes and questions that have great applicability to the comparative study of mysticism and the broader study of religion. These include prayer and the nature of mystical experience; meditative concentration directed to God; and the power of mental intention, authority, creativity, and the transmission of wisdom.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789331503321

Titolo

Forced marches [[electronic resource] ] : soldiers and military caciques in modern Mexico / / edited by Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2012

ISBN

1-299-19199-1

0-8165-9942-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FallawBen <1966->

RugeleyTerry <1956->

Disciplina

355.0097209/0/4

Soggetti

Militarism - Social aspects - Mexico

Militarism - Political aspects - Mexico

Mexico History, Military 19th century

Mexico History, Military 20th century

Mexico Armed Forces History 19th century

Mexico Armed Forces History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Redrafting history : the challenges of scholarship on the Mexican military experience / Terry Rugeley and Ben Fallaw -- An unsatisfactory picture of civil commotion : unpopular militias and tepid nationalism in the Mexican southeast / Terry Rugeley -- The mobile national guard of Guanajuato, 1855-1858 : military hybridization and statecraft in reforma Mexico / Daniel S. Haworth -- Behaving badly in Mexico City : discipline and identity in the presidential guards, 1900-1911 / Stephen Neufeld -- Heliodoro Charis Castro and the soldiers of Juchitán : indigenous militarism, local rule, and the Mexican state / Benjamin T. Smith -- Eulogio Ortíz : the army and the antipolitics of postrevolutionary state formation, 1920-1935 / Ben Fallaw -- Revolutionary citizenship against institutional inertia : Cardenismo and the Mexican Army, 1934-1940 / Thomas Rath -- Military caciquismo in the Priísta state : general Mange's command in Veracruz / Paul Gillingham -- Conclusion : reflections on state theory through the lens of the Mexican military / David Nugent.