Kabbalah and the Founding of America : : The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World / / Brian Ogren.
Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identityIn 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey penned a letter to one of his closest disciples concerning Kabbalah, or what he called the mystical theology of the Jews. Around that same time, one of t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Language
- Introduction: Kabbalistic “Diamonds in a Dunghill”: On Reductionism and Inclusivity in Early American Explorations into Jewish Thought
- 1. American Christian Quakerism and Jewish Mysticism: Jacob Boehme in America and the Lost Kabbalistic Manuscript of George Keith
- 2. From Christian Quakerism to American Puritanism: George Keith, Cotton Mather, and Kabbalistic Polemics
- 3. Sabbateanism and Mystical Conversion in the New World: From Increase Mather to Judah Monis
- 4. Nothing but the Truth: The First Kabbalistic Text Published in North America
- 5. Universal Kabbalah in the Colleges of America: Ezra Stiles and the Jewish- Protestant Interface
- Conclusion: Jewish Involvement and American Exceptionalism: On Kabbalah and Historiography on Colonial America
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix I: The Cabbala of the Jews, George Keith, 1688
- Appendix II: An Oration Upon the Hebrew Literature, Hebrew, Ezra Stiles, 1778
- Appendix III: An Oration Upon the Hebrew Literature, English, Ezra Stiles, 1781
- Glossary of Kabbalistic Terms
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author