Kabbala und religiöse Identität

Nicole Maria Bauer

doi:10.14361/9783839436998

Summary

Despite the progression of secularisation, new religious groups are enjoying great success, and attract hundreds of people a year with the use of a range of marketing strategies. But what is it, exactly, that makes them attractive? Nicole Maria Bauer's religious studies analysis of the Kabbalah Centre provides one answer to that question. The Kabbalah Centre is a neoreligious movement founded at the end of the 1960s in the USA which has been active in Germany for several years, and which draws people from a range of different religious contexts. This transdisciplinary study examines constructions of religious identity on an institutional and personal level, and outlines a new approach for their investigation. The book also takes up current trends such as 'religious branding' and connects them with newer approaches from identity research.

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-3699-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-3699-8
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Religionswissenschaft
Volume: 7
Language: German
Pages: 290
Product type: Book Titles

FrontmatterPages 1 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
InhaltPages 7 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
Vorwort No access Pages 9 - 10
Einleitung No access Pages 11 - 18
Forschungsstand No access Pages 19 - 32
Theoretische Betrachtungen No access Pages 33 - 98
Methodischer Zugang No access Pages 99 - 118
Die Erfindung einer kabbalistischen Tradition - Religionsgeschichtliche Verortung von Kabbala No access Pages 119 - 142
Das Kabbalah Centre No access Pages 143 - 160
Kollektive religiöse Identität im Kabbalah Centre No access Pages 161 - 210
Die religiöse Identitätskonstruktion der Akteure No access Pages 211 - 248
Schlussbetrachtungen und Ausblick No access Pages 249 - 260
Literatur No access Pages 261 - 290