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Lubavitcher Messianism - What Really Happens When Prophecy Fails? (Hardcover, New)
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Lubavitcher Messianism - What Really Happens When Prophecy Fails? (Hardcover, New)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Thought
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In 1994 the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, died leaving no
successor. For many years his followers had maintained that he was
Moshiach -the Jewish Messiah and would usher in the Redemption.
After his death Lubavitch divided into two opposing groups. While
some messianists hold that the Rebbe died but is to be resurrected
as the messiah, others hold that he is still alive, but concealed.
The anti-messianists maintain that the Rebbe could have been
Moshiach if God had willed it, but they disagree vehemently that as
such he could come back from the dead. Using ethnographic data
obtained by the author through twenty years of fieldwork, this book
presents a social-psychological account of Lubavitcher Messianism
and moves beyond the typical scholarly preoccupation with belief
and dissonance to examine the role of rhetoric, religious
experience and ritual in maintaining counterintuitive convictions.
Through examining the parallels between early Christianity and
messianism in Lubavitch this book provides a comprehensive
perspective for examining messianism generally.
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