Many Cultures share the yearning to a far ideal past – the lost paradise. What is special in the past-time perception of New Age Spirituality, especially in its Jewish/Israeli version? How does this spiritual discourse narrates the Jewish and human history?
That is this article’s subject (about 6,500 words, in Hebrew. The article is included in the first anthology about the New Age to be published in Israel (and in Hebrew), and it describes major findings from the doctoral dissertation of Ruah-Midbar Shapiro.
Author
Marianna Ruah-Midbar
Links
For a (Hebrew) survey on the anthology, by J. Loss, published in Israeli Sociolgy journal (2008) click here.
For the book’s page (in Hebrew) at the site “Text” click here.
For the book’s page (in Hebrew) at HaKibbutz HaMe’uchad publishing house’s site – click here.
For a journalistic column (in Hebrew) on the anthology’s publication – click here.
For a post (in Hebrew) on the anthology in Tomer Persico’s blog – click here.
Year
2007
Language
Hebrew
Academic/Non-academic
Academic item
Bibliographical citation
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “‘Back to Paradise’ in New Age Thought: Images of an Ideal Past in the History of the Jewish People”, in Dancing in a Fallow Land: The New Age in Israel, edited by Iddo Tavory. Tel Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMeuchad (Red Line), 2007. pp. 28–59. [Hebrew]
