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Authors: Jonathan Garb
ISBN-13: 9780226282077, ISBN-10: 0226282074
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: April 2011
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jonathan Garb

Jonathan Garb is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University and the author of, most recently, The Chosen Will Become Herds: Studies in Twentieth-Century Kabbalah.

Book Synopsis

Table of Contents

Preface

 

ONE / Theory of Shamanism, Trance, and Modern Kabbalah

TWO / The Shamanic Process: Descent and Fiery Transformations

THREE / Empowerment through Trance

FOUR / Shamanic Hasidism

FIVE / Hasidic Trance

SIX / Trance and the Nomian

Epilogue

 

Appendix: Psychoanalysis and Hasidism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Subjects