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Cybernetic Hasidism: An Essay on Social and Religious Change.
- Source :
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Sociological Inquiry . Mar1974, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p131-144. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 1974
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Abstract
- This paper employs a cybernetic model of a religious symbol system to explain the competition among Rabbinists, Hasidim, and Messianists in the Jewish communities of eighteenth-century Poland. Hasidism's ability to attract adherents is explained by the great flexibility of its constitutive belief, ‘communion with God’ when compared with Rabbinic Torah or the Messianic belief in the ‘lifting of sparks.’ This flexibility is traced through all levels of the cybernetic hierarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HASIDISM
*JEWISH sects
*MESSIANISM
*RELIGIOUS movements
*SOCIAL movements
*SOCIOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380245
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sociological Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 13809304
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682X.1974.tb00733.x