Kabbalistic self-help: the microcosm in practice

Medieval and early modern Jewish works of self-improvement share a set of conventions identifying them as a genre. They all imagine the ideal self as a microcosm for a divinized cosmos, and they instruct their readers to conform to the ideal by means of ritual cognition, affect, ritual practice, and...

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Main Author: Segol, Marla (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2016]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 84, Issue: 3, Pages: 665-689
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judaism / Kaballah / Self-optimization / Psychotherapy
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AZ New religious movements
BH Judaism
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