Boundary crossers
While the practice by Jews of Eastern meditation was sharply criticized in the Jewish world in the sixties, today, Buddhist-inspired new forms of "Jewish meditation" are being taught in most mainstream Jewish institutions in America and the Western world. What has led to such a turnaround?...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 177, Pages: 157-175 |
| Further subjects: | B
agents of change
B Jewish Buddhists B symbolic boundaries B boundary crossing B religious globalization |
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| Summary: | While the practice by Jews of Eastern meditation was sharply criticized in the Jewish world in the sixties, today, Buddhist-inspired new forms of "Jewish meditation" are being taught in most mainstream Jewish institutions in America and the Western world. What has led to such a turnaround? Using Barth’s concept of "agents of change," the case studies of six American Jews teaching meditation shows how individual strategies can end up impacting the topography of a religious field, how the margins can impact the "center" of a religious group. As it reshapes Judaism’s symbolic boundaries, both external and internal, the phenomenon of the Buddhist Jews invites us to rethink religion as a process constantly in the making, continuously shaped by individual choices and cultural interactions. |
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| ISSN: | 1777-5825 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/assr.29318 |