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Title: LUBAVITCHER MESSIANISM
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS WHEN PROPHECY FAILS?
By: Simon Dein
Format: Hardback

List price: £130.00


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ISBN 10: 1441112235
ISBN 13: 9781441112231
Publisher: CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION
Pub. date: 20 January, 2011
Series: Continuum Studies in Jewish Thought
Pages: 194
Description: How do religious groups deal with the failure of their prophecy? This book presents an ethnographic study of the Lubavitcher movement, and a socio-psychological examination of Lubavitcher messianism.
Synopsis: In 1994 the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, died leaving no successor. For many years his followers had maintained that he was Moshiach -the Jewish Messiah and would usher in the Redemption. After his death Lubavitch divided into two opposing groups. While some messianists hold that the Rebbe died but is to be resurrected as the messiah, others hold that he is still alive, but concealed. The anti-messianists maintain that the Rebbe could have been Moshiach if God had willed it, but they disagree vehemently that as such he could come back from the dead. Using ethnographic data obtained by the author through twenty years of fieldwork, this book presents a social-psychological account of Lubavitcher Messianism and moves beyond the typical scholarly preoccupation with belief and dissonance to examine the role of rhetoric, religious experience and ritual in maintaining counterintuitive convictions. Through examining the parallels between early Christianity and messianism in Lubavitch this book provides a comprehensive perspective for examining messianism generally.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Returns: Non-returnable
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