This Encyclopedic entry presents one of the main reseach specialties of Ruah-Midbar Shapiro – The meetingplace of Judaism and New Age spirituality.
It includes several exemplifications of the phenomena generated in this meetingplace, such as Jewish Reiki, Jewish Shamanism, Jubu, contemporary alternative spiritual versions of Kabbalah and Hassidism.
The entry in included in a larger context of addressing Modern Judaism, withing volume 14 of the encyclopedia.
The encyclopedia in which this entry was included, was awarded excellence acknowledgement by Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL- the largest division of the American Library Association), as one of its very few Outstanding Electronic Academic Titles for 2020. See the acknowledment here.
The encyclopedia is dedicated to the Bible and its reception (EBR), and entails multitute volumes, both the digital and print form, published by De Gruyter.
Author
Marianna Ruah-Midbar
Links
For more information on EBR – click here.
Year
2017
Language
English
Academic/Non-academic
Academic item
Bibliographical citation
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Kabbalah – Modern Judaism – New Age Judaism”, in Helmer, Christine, Steven Linn McKenzie, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 14. De Gruyter: Berlin and Boston, 2017. pp. 1182-1184.
