Kabbalah and the Founding of America : The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World /

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"Kabbalah and the Founding of America explores the use of Jewish esoteric thought in colonial America by Quaker theologian George Keith, Puritan ministers Increase and Cotton Mather, the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard Judah Monis, and the seventh president of Yale Ezra Stiles, in shaping ne...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ogren, Brian (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Protestantism > United States > History > 18th century.
Protestantism > United States > History > 17th century.
Cabala > United States.
Protestantism.
Intellectual life.
Civilization > Jewish influences.
Cabala.
Protestantisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Protestantisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Kabbale.
United States > Civilization > Jewish influences.
United States.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
États-Unis > Civilisation > Influence juive.
United States > Intellectual life.
History.
Religion.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Kabbalistic "Diamonds in a dunghill" ; on reductionism and inclusivity in early American explorations into Jewish thought
  • American Christian Quakerism and Jewish mysticism : Jacob Boehme in America and the lost Kabbalistic manuscript of George Keith
  • From Christian Quakerism to American puritanism : George Keith, Cotton Mather, and Kabbalistic polemics
  • Sabbateanism and mystical conversion in the New World : from Increase Mather to Judan Monis
  • Nothing but the Truth : the first Kabbalistic text published in North America
  • Universal Kabbalah in the colleges of America : Ezra Stiles and the Jewish-Protestant interface
  • Jewish involvement and American exceptionalism : on Kabbalah and historiography on colonial America.

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