Overview
- Takes a critical look at the current use of mindfulness and psychedelics, focusing on their application to Judaism and Jewish life today
- Describes the place of mindfulness in contemporary American Jewish culture
- Presents an account of Judaism that problematizes its compatibility with contemporary self-transformation practices
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Contemporary Judaism is transforming, especially in America, from a community experience to more of a do-it-yourself religion focused on the individual self. In this book Christopher L. Schilling offers a critique of this transformation. Schilling discusses problematic aspects of Jewish mindfulness meditation, and the relationship between Judaism and psychedelics, proceeding to explore the science behind these developments and the implications they have for Judaism.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christopher L. Schilling is a lawyer and political scientist. He holds a PhD and LLB from the University of Hamburg and a MA from Goldsmiths, University of London. His work has appeared in Modern Judaism, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Jewish Political Studies Review, and Israel Affairs, among others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zen Judaism
Book Subtitle: The Case Against a Contemporary American Phenomenon
Authors: Christopher L. Schilling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71506-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71505-2Published: 05 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71506-9Published: 04 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 124