title: Academic researches of a Kabbalah: Some methodological problems
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metadata.value: Bystrov, Vladimir Yu.
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metadata.value: 2020-05-07T12:18:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-07T12:18:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Bystrov V. Yu. Academic researches of a Kabbalah: Some methodological problems. Issues of Theology, 2020, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 52–64.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2020.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17554
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metadata.value: The discussion about demarcation of objects of research between theology and
  other humanities rightfully comes down to the question of the possible existence
  of “religious science” about religion. Especially fruitful for solving this general task
  may be the study of academic research of such mystical and esoteric trends in Judaism,
  such as kabbalah, and the study not so much of the current state of this
  research, but the study of the very process of their origin, process of recognition of
  their subject as a “serious” and legitimate object of science, and process of formation
  of key approaches to this object. The availability of academic research of kabbalah is
  connected with the solution of some methodological problems, in particular, with
  the need for a stricter demarcation of the Jewish kabbalistic tradition and the socalled
  “Christian cabala” which can have completely different historical and cultural
  origins and has only an external similarity to Jewish kabbalah. The special value is
  kept also by problems regarding the origin of kabbalah, reconstruction of its literary
  and theurgic sources, comparative comparisons of kabbalistic spirituality to similar
  practices in eastern religions. The article considers the concepts of the origin of kabbalah
  by Gershom Sholem and Moshe Idel, attention is paid to the fruitfulness of
  the comparative program of research of kabbalah and eastern spirituality as well as
  the applied use of kabbalistic ideas in modern literary criticism.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 2; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: kabbalah
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious philosophy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theosophy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christian cabala
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: comparative studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Academic researches of a Kabbalah: Some methodological problems
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metadata.value: Article
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