Comparative Mysticism from a Jewish Point of View
Palazzo Paolo Prodi
Via Tommaso Gar 14, Trento
Aula 001
Understanding mysticism as a multidimensional and multifaith phenomenon is not an easy task. What explanatory paradigms do scholars use today? Why is it important to offer comparative knowledge of socio-religious phenomena and to fix historical connections between different traditions? Which are the new methodological challenges? These are some of the questions that Professor Boaz Huss (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) will try to answer in his lecture entitled “Comparative Mysticism from a Jewish Point of View.”
Organized by:
University of Trento in collaboration with FBK-ISR
Registration deadline for remote participants:
Sept. 24, 2024, 12:00 PM
Scientific Committee:
Massimo Giuliani (University of Trento)
Martina Perotta (University of Trento)
Contacts:
Department of Humanities staff
0461 281788
https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/lettere/121850/comparative-mysticism-from-a-jewish-point-of-view
Image:
Kabbalistic Art from Tzfat/Safed – Public License Creative Commons
Speakers
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Boaz Huss holds the Aron Bernstein Chair in Jewish History in the Department of Jewish Thought and is chair of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. His research interests include the history of Kabbalah, Western esotericism and new religious movements. His publications include The Cosmic Movement: Sources, Contexts, Impact (Bialik Press, 2021, with Julie Chajes), Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age Spirituality, Oxford University Press, 2020, and The Zohar: Reception and Impact, Liverpool University Press, 2016. He is currently engaged in research on comparative mysticism, Jewish followers of the Theosophical Society, and anthroposophy in Israel.
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