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Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel

Part of the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities Book Series

Editors: Feraro, Shai; Lewis, James R.

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53913-7

ISBN: 978-1-137-54741-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 11, 2016

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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A Sacred Time in the Sacred Land: Authenticating the Past in New Age Judaism

Werczberger, Rachel

Pages: 3 –19

[This study focuses on the creative reconstruction of Jewish history in New Age Judaism (NAJ) in Israel. NAJ reformulates the biblical period as a sacred time by focusing on its spiritual aspects, namely as a period distinguished by un-institutionalized forms of religious experience, of...
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Kabbalah Through the Utilitarian Prism: Contemporary Neo-Kabbalah in Israel as a Form of Consumer Culture

Persico, Tomer

Pages: 21 –38

[The chapter explores the rise of what might be called “the utilitarian self” in the contemporary spirituality arena in Israel through analyzing the teachings of two major Neo-Kabbalah movements in Israel. The utilitarian self, which has its origins in the religious field of...
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Body and Soul in Yemima Avital’s Teachings and in Her Students’ Testimonies, Philosophies and Practices

Ramon, Einat

Pages: 39 –55

[This chapter explores the relationship between body and soul as perceived by Yemima Avital (1929–1999), an Israeli woman mystic who founded the ‘cognitive thinking’ method. Since the 1990s, a steadily growing number of Jewish Israelis, in separate groups of men or women, study her teachings as...
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Individualization of Jewish UnOrthodox (Alternative) Wedding Rituals in Israel

Prashizky, Anna

Pages: 57 –79

[This chapter examines patterns of collective memory in a variety of Jewish wedding rituals in contemporary Israeli society, referring to the symbolic content of these rituals. I focus on one particular component of the wedding ritual, the sheva berakhot intoned under the Orthodox huppa (canopy)...
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The Incorporation of Spiritual Care into Israeli Medical Organizations

Zaidman, Nurit

Pages: 83 –94

[The objectives of this chapter are to analyze participants’ perspectives of spiritual care and its incorporation into hospitals and elderly homes, and to suggest a preliminary interpretation of this phenomenon in light of its embeddedness within the New Age Spirituality in Israel. It...
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Inherent Paradox in Cultural Change: New Age Rituals as Case Study

Simchai, Dalit

Pages: 95 –113

[In this chapter, I examine New Age culture in Israel in light of the theories of sub-cultures and of New Social Movements. The central issue under discussion is the relationship between members of social movements and sub-cultures and those they regard as belonging to mainstream Israeli society...
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The State and New Religious Movements

Sagiv, Masua

Pages: 115 –132

[The chapter will discuss the attitudes the State of Israel maintains toward New Religious Movements (NRMs) through the actions of the legislative, executive and judicial branches. It will show that, governmental attempts to control the activity of NRMs notwithstanding, under the current legal...
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Theosophy and Anthroposophy in Israel: An Historical Survey

Lubelsky, Isaac

Pages: 135 –154

[This chapter deals for the first time, academically speaking, with the history of the Theosophical Society and its offspring, the Anthroposophical Society, in Israel. It first narrates the histories of both societies’ mother movements, and emphasizes the role of their founders (H.P. Blavatsky in...
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Messages for the End: Eschatological Thought in Twentieth Century Channeling

Klin-Oron, Adam

Pages: 155 –174

[A prevalent belief among New Age adherents is that a new golden epoch is about to dawn. Channels, claiming to relay messages from disembodied entities, have been pivotal in shaping and spreading this belief. Analysis of twentieth century Israeli and American channels demonstrates that while...
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The Menstrual Discourse in Israeli Yoga for Women: Narrative and Ritual, Agency and Control

Rosen Even-Zohar, Carmit

Pages: 175 –195

[The chapter deals with the social construction of the menstrual experience through a new discourse created, developed and disseminated in the first Yoga for Women course in Israel. Based on an ethnographic study of this course which the author conducted as part of her Master’s thesis, the paper...

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