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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969372003321

Autore

Kornegay E

Titolo

A Queering of Black Theology : James Baldwin's Blues Project and Gospel Prose / / by E. Kornegay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

9781349478552

1349478555

9781137376473

1137376473

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, , 2945-6983

Disciplina

818.54

Soggetti

Theology

Black theology

Bible - Study and teaching

Communication

Culture - Study and teaching

Religion - History

Christian Theology

Black Theology

Biblical Studies

Media and Communication

Cultural Studies

History of Religion

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Prolonged Religious Crisis; 2 Between James's Gospel and Jimmy's blues; 3 Living Exiled in the Promised Land; 4 Queering and Theological Signification; 5 Conversion: Queer Theory and Black Theology; 6 Desire: Queering in the Black Church; Conclusion: James Baldwin, Queer Theory, and Theological Reflection; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius



offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse generally.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955680603321

Autore

Elior Rachel

Titolo

The paradoxical ascent to God : the kabbalistic theosophy of Habad Hasidism / / Rachel Elior ; translated from Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1993

ISBN

1-4384-0198-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 279 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in Judaica

Disciplina

296.8/3322

Soggetti

Habad - Doctrines

Cabala - Influence

Mysticism - Judaism - History

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. 255-268) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Content""; ""Introduction""; ""A Spiritual Awakening""; ""The Influence of the Kabbalah""; ""The Historical Background""; ""The Hasidic World-View""; ""Habad-Hasidism""; ""The Dual Meaning of Existence""; ""The Dialectical Systems""; ""The Books of Habad""; ""The Four Subjects of Discussion""; ""The Background of the Paradoxical Argument""; ""The Doctrine of Divinity, the Mystical Theology""; ""Acosmism""; ""The Relation Between God and the World""

""Wholeness as the Incorporation of Opposites"" ""Hashvaah (Equalization)""; ""Entity and Manifestation-Nothingness and Being""; ""The Doctrine of Tzimtzum""; ""Transcendence and Immanence""; ""The Paradox-Two Opposites in a Single Subject""; ""Soul Consciousness and Perception""; ""The Doctrine of the Soul""; ""The Divine Soul""; ""The Bestial Soul""; ""Divine Worship""; ""Divine Worship-Introduction""; ""Two Aspects of Divine Worship""; ""Esoterics and Exoterics-- The



Dispute over the Dissemination of Spiritual Doctrines""; ""Ha-'Avodah be-Bittul-- Worship in Self-Annihilation""

""Self-Annihilation and the Divine Wholeness"" ""Ha-'Avodah be-Hitbonenut-- Worship in Contemplation""; ""The Controversy over Contemplation""; ""The Three Principal Types of Worship in Annihilation""; ""Faith That Transcends Intellect and Comprehension""; ""Mesirut Nefesh-Self-Sacrifice""; ""The Confrontation Concerning the Goals of Spiritual Worship""; ""'Avodah be-Hipukh-- Worship through Inversion and the Actualization of Divine Wholeness""; ""Back Matter""; ""Conclusion""; ""Glossary""; ""Notes""; ""Primary Sources""; ""Reference List""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a study of the Habad Hasidism movement, an influential part of the Hasidic Movement, which originated in the eigteenth century. Habad was founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1813) who established a Hasidic community in Belorussia and who set forth the new Habad doctrine in a book entitled Tanya (Likutey Amarim). This doctrine expounded the mystical ideas underlying the quest for God. Its essential innovation lay in the formulation of a religious outlook which concentrated upon perceiving the divinity: its essence, its nature, the stages of its manifestation, its characteristics, its perfection, its differing wills, its processes, the significance of its revelation and the possibilities of its perception. This conception generated a profound transformation of religious worship and was the cause of great controversy throughout the Jewish world.