Main field of study: Religious Studies
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Learning outcomes for the course
On completion of the course, students will be able to:
- explain various forms of Jewish magic and mysticism from late antiquity to modernity with a focus on the Middle Ages and the early modern period
- explain the most important Kabbalistic works and the Kabbalah‘s relationship to earlier rabbinic sources
- reflect on the role of Kabbalah in Jewish religious practice and theology
- analyse and discuss influencing factors that Jewish Kabbalah has had on Christian Kabbalah, esotericism, and later New Age and alternative religiosity
- put Chassidism and later Jewish charismatics in their different historical contexts
- apply and discuss the term “mysticism“, and reflect on and evaluate its applicability in Jewish religious phenomena
- compare and draw conclusions about the academic perspectives that alternated in the study of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism during the 20th century.