Included in this session are four lectures presenting studies of nature and ecology from the angles of philosophy, mysticism and magic.
The session was part of the 7th annual conference of the Israeli Association for the Study of Religions (IASR), held at the Open University in Ra’anana, on 10 June, 2024. The annual conference was dedicated to the topic “Religion and Environment”.
The chairperson of this session is Prof. Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, who lectured at this conference in another session that she had organized (see link below).
Below one can download the abstracts of the lectures of the session.
Session's Structure
Below is the schedule of lectures and lecturers at the session:
Chairwoman: Prof. Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro (University of Haifa)
1. The Mysticism of Nature and its Relation to the Religious System
Prof. Shlomi Moalem (Bar Ilan University)
2. Man’s Status in Nature between (Peter) AD Singer and AD Gordon
Dr. Nadav S. Berman (University of Haifa)
3. “The Intention of Creation is for the Creatures to Exist and the Steps to Ascend”: the Mystical Experience in an Ecological Kabbalistic Current
Dr. Yoni Schnitzer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
4. Nature and the Supernatural: The Natural Temple or the Temple of Nature in the Book of Salomon’s Key
Dr. Yevgeny Kuzmin (independent researcher)
Session's participants
Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro
Shlomi Moalem
Nadav S. Berman
Yoni Schnitzer
Yevgeny Kuzmin
Links
Date
June 10, 2024
Language
Hebrew
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