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Lior, Yair.

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Kabbalah and Neo-Confucianism: A comparative morphology of medieval movements.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Kabbalah and Neo-Confucianism: A comparative morphology of medieval movements./
Author:	Lior, Yair.
Description:	667 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-07A(E).
Subject:	Comparative religion. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3684836
ISBN:	9781321602630

Kabbalah and Neo-Confucianism: A comparative morphology of medieval movements.
Lior, Yair.

Kabbalah and Neo-Confucianism: A comparative morphology of medieval movements. - 667 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2015.

This study is a comparative analysis of the rise of Neo-Confucianism in China during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the emergence of the school of Kabbalah in France and Spain during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE. This comparison is grounded in the observation that the two schools, in spite of their obvious differences, were an outcome of separate reactions to the rising popularity of foreign paradigms. I draw a distinction between synthetic and analytic modes of operation (modalities), arguing they represent contrasting cultural paradigms characterized by divergent cognitive, social, linguistic, and cultural temperaments. I argue that both the classical Chinese and Jewish worldviews conformed to the basic characteristics of the synthetic modality, and that they entered a period of acute crisis as a result of the rising popularity of the analytic Buddhist and Greek philosophical traditions respectively. As I define it, the synthetic worldview is characterized by the affirmation of the body and this-worldly life, an emphasis on ritual and community, cultural particularism, and associative, non-analytical modes of thought. The contrasting analytic worldview stresses individualism, de-contextualization of data, other-worldliness, contemplative spirituality, and universalism.

ISBN: 9781321602630Subjects--Topical Terms:

2079449
Comparative religion.

Kabbalah and Neo-Confucianism: A comparative morphology of medieval movements.
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