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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism
This history of Sufi conceptions of the hereafter often imagined as
a place of corporeal reward (Paradise) or punishment (Hell) is
built upon the study of five medieval Sufi Qur'an commentaries.
Pieter Coppens shows that boundary crossing from this world to the
otherworld, and vice versa, revolves around the idea of meeting
with and the vision of God; a vision which for some Sufis is not
limited to the hereafter. The Qur'anic texts selected for study all
key verses on seeing God are placed in their broader religious and
social context and are shown to provide a useful and varied source
for the reconstruction of a history of Sufi eschatology and the
vision of God.
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Mystic Bonfires
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Kevin Op Goodrich; Foreword by Bryan Froehle
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Divine Light
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Michael H. Mitias
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Martin Buber's embrace of Hasidism at the start of the twentieth
century was instrumental to the revival of this popular form of
Jewish mysticism. Hoping to instigate a Jewish cultural and
spiritual renaissance, he published a series of anthologies of
Hasidic teachings written in German to introduce the tradition to a
wide audience. In "Aesthetics of Renewal," Martina Urban closely
analyzes Buber's writings and sources to explore his interpretation
of Hasidic spirituality as a form of cultural criticism. For Buber,
Hasidic legends and teachings were not a static, canonical body of
knowledge, but were dynamic and open to continuous
reinterpretation. Urban argues that this representation of Hasidism
was essential to the Zionist effort to restore a sense of unity
across the Jewish diaspora as purely religious traditions
weakened--and that Buber's anthologies in turn played a vital part
in the broad movement to use cultural memory as a means to
reconstruct a collective identity for Jews. As Urban unravels the
rich layers of Buber's vision of Hasidism in this insightful book,
he emerges as one of the preeminent thinkers on the place of
religion in modern culture.
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