Mystical Sociology: Toward Cosmic Social Theory

by Philip Wexler

Culture changes historically, and along with it, reflexive disciplinary representations. Without fully abandoning Sociology, especially the classical tradition, and instead aligning it with its own religious origins and inclinations to an emergent socio-religious imaginary, we look elsewhere for a historically more effective hermeneutic. Here we look especially toward Jewish mysticism - particularly its social face in Hasidism - as a source not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433123398
• ISBN13: 9781433123399
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"