3 papers in the library · 9 citations · publishing 2009-2024
Stanford University Press eBooks June 11, 2024 Alex K. Gearin 9 citations
Surveying contemporary networks and practices in Peru, Australia, and China, anthropologist Alex K. Gearin explores the visionary marvels, wonders, and diversity of ayahuasca drinking today. Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the...
Stanford University Press eBooks December 13, 2010 Shachar Pinsker
This chapter focuses on the modernist articulations of religiosity and a quest for religious experience in modernist Hebrew writings, examinesing the religious theme of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) in the novels and stories of Yosef Chaim Brenner, Gershon Shofman, and Uri Nissan Gnessin.
Stanford University Press eBooks June 29, 2009
Central to kabbalistic behavior is the conduct of the mind, as reflected in the marked emphasis of the texts of medieval Kabbalah on concrete instruction and prescription. Because Isaac ben Samuel of Akko was indebted to the meditative posture of eastern Kabbalah, this characterization is highly applicable to his two works, Me'irat 'Einayim and 'Ozar Hayyim. Isaac's attempt to instruct his...