Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universiṭat Bar-Ilan, Ramat-Gan, 1979. / Cover title. Title on p. [4] of cover: Chassidism and national revival. Bibliography: leaves 310-322.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2008. / Thesis directed by Gary A. Anderson for the Department of Theology. "July 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-221).

Thesis--Catholic University of America. / Includes bibliographical references (p. xi-xv).

Thesis--Catholic University of America. / Includes bibliographical references (p. xi-xv).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1933. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-143) and index.

Added title page in English: Dialectics and harmony in the concepts of history and messianism of Rav Kook. / This essay will attempt to examine Rav Kook's corpus of thought from the viewpoint of its systems of methodological foundations: dialectic and harmonistic. These two elements are the dominant components of his thought, both from the methodological and ontological aspects. As to the harmonistic element, it should be noted that Rav Kook's entire corpus of thought is stamped with the idea of monistic unity, and he believes in the unity of existence from the point of view of ontological monism. The monism is inherent even in the center of the theoretical method, or in the words of Rav Kook: "The various thoughts actually don't contradict each other, everything is but a unitary revelation which appears in different sparks".

This thesis explores transmission of religious representations of sacrifice and commitment within modern Jewish-Israeli culture. The thesis begins with a focus on the domain of religious representations and then explores the empirical plausibility of a context-based approach for studying their transmission patterns using recently emerging perspectives within cognitive science of religion. On that basis, the thesis turns the attention to religious representations that violate shared cultural assumptions (counter-cultural), through a review of the possible differences between these and religious representations that violate innate intuitions ( counterintuitive ). It is argued that without further expanding of the context-based view to include violations of cultural kind, new advances in this approach will not be convincing. A theoretical model of the effect of context on the spread of counter-cultural religious representations is therefore developed through a conceptual integration of aspects of script theory. The socio-cognitive model presented here is based on the potential connection between emerging accounts for cultural transmission and script theory. The first study involves an empirical investigation of media representations of sacrifice and commitment scripts within Jewish - Israeli culture. A second study, involving 1,005 participants, seeks to operationalize the investigation of religious representations, and does so by an online research tool that allows structured insight into mental representations of sacrifice and commitment scripts, based on representation elicited from the previous media analysis. This dynamic technology facilitates the investigation of the different qualities of recurrent representations over time and under different contextual conditions. In conclusion, this thesis attempts to explore the potential connections between the context in which counter-cultural representations are spread and the degree to which they spread by suggesting that under some conditions representations that maximally deviate from cultural assumptions can turn minimal, becoming optimal for transmission, as long as they can be justified in that context.

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