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Religion and healing among the Lubavitch community in Stamford Hill, North London : a case study of Hasidism
- Title
- Religion and healing among the Lubavitch community in Stamford Hill, North London : a case study of Hasidism / Simon Dein.
- Author
- Dein, Simon, 1959-
- Publication
- Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2004.
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- Description
- xxiii, 271 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Dein (anthropology and medicine, University College, London Medical School) examines the Lubavitch community to find relations between medicine and religion, the role of the anthropologist in constructing models of healing, the social factors connected with magical beliefs in the Lubavitch community, and the need within that community to attract others to those beliefs. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
- Series Statement
- Jewish studies ; v. 27
- Uniform Title
- Jewish studies (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 27.
- Subject
- Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, 1902-1994 > Influence
- Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, 1902-1994
- Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, 1902-1994
- 1900-1999
- Habad > England > London > Customs and practices
- Habad > England > London > Doctrines
- Healing > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
- Jews
- Ethnology
- Magic
- Medicine > Religious aspects
- Jews
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Attitude to Health > ethnology
- Ceremonial Behavior
- Magic
- Religion and Medicine
- Ethnology
- social anthropology
- ethnology
- illusion (performing art)
- magic (occult science)
- Medicine > Religious aspects
- Habad > Customs and practices
- Habad > Doctrines
- Healing > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
- Religion
- Chassidisme
- Genezing
- Habad > Great Britain > London > Customs and practices
- Stamford Hill (London, England) > Religion > 20th century
- London (England) > Religion > 20th century
- London > ethnology
- England > London
- England > London > Stamford Hill
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.
- Contents
- Preface / Roland Littlewood -- A Kabbalistic primer -- Ch. 1. The origins of Hasidism and its practices of healing -- Ch. 2. Words of healing -- Ch. 3. Ethnography of the Stamford Hill community -- Ch. 4. The Rebbe and his miracles : the power of stories -- Ch. 5. Body and soul -- Ch. 6. Words, texts and creation -- Ch. 7. Pragmatic and symbolic healing -- Ch. 8. Messianic expectations in Stamford Hill -- Ch. 9. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0773463712
- 9780773463714
- 0889462518
- 9780889462519
- LCCN
- 2004050715
- OCLC
- ocm55146856
- 55146856
- SCSB-1351614
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library