2nd Hand - Jewish Spirituality From The Sixteenth Century To The Present Edited By Arthur Green

2nd hand paperback in very good condition, no spine creasing. A few odd marks from being on a shelf and a corner removed from title page.

In this unparalled series, a project which is unlikely to be attempted again with such thoroughness for at least another century, leading scholars and specialists from every religious tradition and every part of the globe cover the spiritual history of the human race.

Each volume, which can be read with benefit apart from the series, is the co-operative work of a team of experts and is generously illustrated with comprehensive bibliographies.#

Contents

1. Renewal: the post-mediaeval age: The safed revival and its aftermath, halakak and kabbalah as competing disciplines: the contemlative practice of Yihudism, typologies of leadership and the Hasidic zaddig, HaBaD: the contemplative ascent to God; Rabbi Israel Salanter and his psychology of mussar; the traditional piety of Ashkenazic women
2. Challenge: the modern age: Secularization, 'spirit' and the strategies of modern Jewish faith; law and sacrament; ritual observance in twentieth-century Jewish philosophy; spiritual and anti-spiritual trends in Zionism; the renewal of Jewish spirituality.

15.5x23.5x3cm 444 pages