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religious studies --- comparative religions --- psychology of religion --- Islamic studies --- Islam --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Islamic studies --- islamic studies

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Bringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion, and Jewish studies to offer a fresh view of the early modern kabbalists and their social and psychological contexts. Through close readings of numerous texts-some translated here for the first time-Garb draws a more complete picture of the kabbalists than previous depictions, revealing them to be as concerned with deeper states of consciousness as they were with study and ritual. Garb discovers that they developed physical and mental methods to induce trance states, visions of heavenly mountains, and transformations into animals or bodies of light. To gain a deeper understanding of the kabbalists' shamanic practices, Garb compares their experiences with those of mystics from other traditions as well as with those recorded by psychologists such as Milton Erickson and Carl Jung. Finally, Garb examines the kabbalists' relations with the wider Jewish community, uncovering the role of kabbalistic shamanism in the renewal of Jewish tradition as it contended with modernity.

Cabala. --- Shamanism. --- jewish thought, judaism, religion, religious studies, faith, mysticism, history, historical, social sciences, comparative religions, kabbalists, psychological, psychology, consciousness, study, ritual, mental methods, trance states, heavenly mountains, cabala, shamanism, transformation, milton erickson, carl jung, modernity, empowerment, shamanic hasidism, hasidic trances.

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Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another’s communities. Ranging from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Crossing Confessional Boundaries explores the complex roles played by saints, sages, and Friends of God in the communal and intercommunal lives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the Mediterranean world, from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East to the Balkans. By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths.

Abrahamic religions --- History --- abrahamic religions. --- christian hagiography. --- christianity. --- christians. --- comparative religion. --- comparative religions. --- faith based comparison. --- friends of god. --- hagiography. --- history of abrahamic faiths. --- history of interfaith dialogue. --- islam. --- islamic studies. --- jewish studies. --- jews. --- judaism. --- muslims. --- religion in late antiquity. --- religion in the mediterranean. --- religion in the middle ages. --- religious education. --- religious studies. --- sages. --- saints. --- world theology.

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The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion-as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.

Demonology --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- History. --- China --- Religion. --- afterlife. --- ancestors. --- ancient china. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese jia jiao. --- chinese religion. --- christianity. --- comparative religions. --- cult. --- death. --- deity. --- demon. --- demonic. --- demonology. --- demons. --- divine power. --- divinity. --- folk belief. --- folk religion. --- folklore. --- ghosts. --- goblins. --- god of wealth. --- gods. --- greed. --- han cult. --- imperial china. --- lust. --- nonfiction. --- popular religion. --- possession. --- religion. --- religious culture. --- salvific religion. --- shanxiao. --- sin. --- spirit of the dead. --- spirituality. --- supernatural. --- vernacular religion. --- vice. --- wutong cult. --- wutong.