1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462333503321

Autore

Etkes I

Titolo

The Besht [[electronic resource] ] : magician, mystic, and leader / / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Saadya Sternberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Mass., : Brandeis University Press

Hanover, : University Press of New England, c2005

ISBN

1-283-54068-1

9786613853134

1-61168-306-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Collana

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series

Disciplina

296.8/332/092

B

Soggetti

Jewish magic

Mysticism - Judaism

Leadership - Religious aspects - Judaism

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. 327-337) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 | Magic and Miracle Workers in the Days of the Baal Shem Tov; 2 | Israel Baal Shem; 3 | A Leader of the Jewish People; 4 | The Besht as Mystic and Pioneer in Divine Worship; 5 | The Besht and His Circle; 6 | The Historicity of Shivhei Habesht; Conclusion | The Besht and the Founding of Hasidism; Appendix I | Magic and Miracle Workers in the Literature of the Haskalah; Appendix II | The Besht's Epistle; Appendix III | The Versions of the Besht's Epistle; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791929003321

Titolo

Ideology and social change in Latin America / / edited by June Nash, Juan Corradi and Hobart Spalding, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-85867-9

1-283-53911-X

9786613851567

1-136-85868-7

0-203-83575-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: development ; ; 82

Altri autori (Persone)

CorradiJuan E. <1943->

NashJune C. <1927->

SpaldingHobart

Disciplina

301.29/8

301.298

305.562098

Soggetti

Working class - Latin America

Populism - Latin America

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1977 by Gordon and Breach.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATIN AMERICA; Copyright; IDEOLOGY & SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATIN AMERICA; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PART I: Emergence of Worker Consciousness; INTRODUCTION; 1.  Cultural Dependence and the Sociology of Knowledge: The Latin American Case; 2. The Andean Rural Proletarians; 3. U.S. and Latin American Labor;  The Dynamics of Imperialist Control; 4. Parliamentary Socialism and Workers' Consciousness in Chile; PART II: Ideologies and the Mobilization of Power; INTRODUCTION; 1. Myth and Ideology in the Andean Highlands

2. ""Low Classness"" or Wavering Populism? A  Peasant Movement in Bolivia (1952-1953)3. Conduct and Code: An Analysis of Market  Syndicates and Social Revolution in La Paz, Bolivia,; 4. Ideology and



Social change in Colombia; 5. Populism and Political Control of the Working Class in Brazil; 6. Economic Organization and Social Conscience: Some Dilemmas of Cuban Socialism; 7. Oppression by Any Other Name;  Power in Search of Legitimacy in Guatemala; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

<P>First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. It will be of interest to anthropologists, students of political science and specialists in Latin American studies.</P>