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Queering the Text (Hardcover)
Andrew Ramer; Foreword by Jay Michaelson; Afterword by Camille Shira Angel
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R1,164
Discovery Miles 11 640
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The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but
joining body and spirit together. To do this, you must break
through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and
wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself. This
groundbreaking guidebook is the first comprehensive treatment of
the body in Jewish spiritual practice and an essential guide to the
sacred. With this indispensable resource to embodied spirituality,
readers will learn how to experience God rather than just engage
God as an idea. And, through physical exercises, meditation
practices, and visualization activities, readers will unite the
sacred with the secular, the mystical with the mundane, by using
their bodies as vehicles for prayer. Tapping the wisdom of
Kabbalah, traditional Judaism, and Western Buddhism, readers will
defy the myths that religion is only practiced in the sanctuary and
that spiritual bodywork is only performed on a yoga mat. By
cultivating an embodied spiritual practice, everyday
activities?eating, walking, breathing, washing?will be transformed
into moments of spiritual realization.
The Heresy of Jacob Frank is the first monograph length study on
the religious philosophy of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), who, in the
wake of false messiah Sabbetai Zevi, led the largest mass apostasy
in Jewish history. Based on close readings of Frank's late
teachings, recorded in 1784 and 1790, this book challenges
scholarly presentations of Frank that depict him as a sex-crazed
"degenerate," and presents Frank as an original and prescient
figure at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, reason and
magic, Kabbalah and Western Esotericism. Frank's worldview combines
a skeptical rejection of religious law as ineffectual and
repressive with a supernatural, esoteric myth of immortal beings,
material magic, and worldly power. With close readings of the
theological and narrative passages of Frank's teachings, Michaelson
shows how the Frankist sect evolved from its Sabbatean roots and
the infamous 1757-59 disputations before the Catholic Church, into
a Western Esoteric society based on alchemy, secrecy, and sexual
liberation. Sexual ritual, apparently tightly limited and
controlled by the sect, was not a libertine bacchanal but an
enactment of the messianic reality, a corporealization of what
would later become known as spirituality. While Frank was
undoubtedly a manipulative, even abusive leader whose sect mostly
disappeared from history, Michaelson suggests that his ideology
anticipated themes that would become predominant in the Haskalah,
Early Hasidism, and even contemporary 'New Age' Judaism. In an
inversion of traditional religious values, Frank's antinomian
theology held personal flourishing to be a religious virtue,
affirmed only the material, and transferred messianic eros into
social, sexual, and political reality.
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and
activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows
that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support
the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible,
passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality,
not despite religion but because of it.
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Queering the Text (Paperback)
Andrew Ramer; Foreword by Jay Michaelson; Afterword by Camille Shira Angel
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R886
R725
Discovery Miles 7 250
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