Philosophie und Religion
Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfer in the Early Modern World
9. Juli 2019, von Webmaster
Foto: A. Paluch
The conference organized by Patrick B. Koch (Universität Hamburg) and Agata Paluch (Freie Universität Berlin) will take place on July 9–10, 2019 in Berlin.
In the last few years the study of Kabbalah in the early modern period, including the complex histories of Lurianic tradition and its dispersion beyond its birthplace in Palestinian Safed, have become a rapidly growing field. As opposed to focusing solely on its theoretical or theological framework, scholars have become interested in new methodological approaches to study early modern kabbalah as a set of religious and cultural practices.
The EAJS conference “Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfer in the Early Modern World” aims at recognizing and evaluating the part that kabbalistic literatures, in a variety of their written formats, played in the transfer of knowledge in the early modern world. The event will gather participants to contribute a series of case studies that will help critically reassess the role and consequences of a variety of texts and practices deemed esoteric for the early modern transmission of knowledge. The conference will be focused on contextualized readings of primary texts presented by each of the participants with the aim to highlight variant patterns of the diffusion of kabbalistic traditions in changing cultural and historical circumstances, and their role in the formation and transformation of contemporary knowledge systems.
Program
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Sponsored by the European Association for Jewish Studies
A collaboration of:
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Universität Hamburg
- Selma Stern Zentrum Berlin-Brandenburg
- Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
The event is open to the public, with advance registration via e-mail:
agata.paluch"AT"fu-berlin.de or patrick.benjamin.koch"AT"uni-hamburg.de