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Hasidic Ashkenazi literature is known to scholars of Jewish religion as one of
the most prolific sources of medieval Jewish magic or magical beliefs. This is
all the more astonishing as the non esoteric writings of the Hasidey Ashkenaz
represent a rather traditional Jewish piety as known to us from talmudic
sources. Considering this duality of an almost traditional Jewish piety on the
one hand and very distinct magic tenets on the other, we may ask whether the
Hasidey Ashkenaz themselves perceived any difference between magic and
religion. There are indeed a number of modern historians of religion who
completely deny the validity of such a distinction, for in most historical
religions magic and religion are in fact intertwined to a certain degree, thus
permitting almost no differentiation between the two.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:1859 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Grözinger, Karl Erich |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Philosophische Fakultät. Institut für Religionswissenschaft |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Postprint |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Mysticism, magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism : international symposium held in Frankfurt a.M. 1991 / ed. by Karl Erich Grözinger. - Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 1995, S. 28 - 43 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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