TY - BOOK AU - Garb,Jonathan TI - The chosen will become herds: studies in twentieth-century Kabbalah SN - 9780300155044 AV - BM525 .G3613 2009eb U1 - 296.1/6 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Cabala KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Kabbale KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - RELIGION KW - Judaism KW - Kabbalah & Mysticism KW - bisacsh KW - General KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the study of twentieth-century Kabbalah: dilemmas and possibilities -- Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century: major trends -- The drive to disseminate kabbalah -- The concept of power in national mysticism -- Psychological notions of power -- Sacred space and sacred persons -- Circumvention and violation of halakha -- The upsurge of mysticism as a Jewish and global phenomenon N2 - A noted expert on Kabbalah, Jonathan Garb places the 'kabbalistic Renaissance' within the global context of the rise of other forms of spirituality, including Sufism and Tibetan Buddhism UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=302199 ER -