Mystical Sociology: Toward Cosmic Social Theory

Author:   Philip Wexler
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   4
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9781433123405


Pages:   219
Publication Date:   14 August 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Mystical Sociology: Toward Cosmic Social Theory


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Author:   Philip Wexler
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   4
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9781433123405


ISBN 10:   1433123401
Pages:   219
Publication Date:   14 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Sociology, Mysticism, and Society – The Mystical Forms of Everyday Life: Beyond Excess – Mystical Social Theory: Examples from Hasidism – Religious Studies and Sociology – Eliade, Classical Sociology, and Jewish Mysticism – Scholem’s «Mysticism and Society»: Steps Toward a Sociology of Jewish Mysticism – Intellectual Foundations of Mystical Sociology – Intellectual Foundations of Mystical Sociology – Social Psychologies of Spirituality – New Mysticism in Scholarship and Society – Education and Professionalism: Regeneration – Postscript: The Farther Shore: Cosmic Social Theory.

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Philip Wexler is Professor of Sociology of Education and Unterberg Chair in Social and Educational Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was recently Visiting Bronfman Professor at Brandeis University. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals and is the author of books in social theory, society and mysticism, Jewish mysticism, sociology of education and the intersection of social theory, mysticism and education. He received his PhD in Sociology and Anthropology at Princeton University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow. In 2013-2014, he will be Visiting Professor in Social Pedagogy and Social Politics at Wuppertal University, Germany.

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