RT Article
T1 Boundary crossers
JF Archives de sciences sociales des religions
VO 177
SP 157
OP 175
A1 Niculescu, Mira
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1856419320
AB 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.
K1 Jewish Buddhists
K1 agents of change
K1 boundary crossing
K1 religious globalization
K1 symbolic boundaries
DO 10.4000/assr.29318