Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church Petite Ivy Press Taking up Gershom Scholem's call

Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential" concealed in the Kabbalistic tradition

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received a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is author of Flushing Away Sentiment: Water Politics in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country

While other kids enjoyed the social aspects of school in the 1960s

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Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church Petite Ivy Press Taking up Gershom Scholem's callWhether one thinks that "religion" continues to fade or has made a comeback in the contemporary world, there is a common notion that "religion" went away somewhere, at least in the West. But William Cavanaugh argues that religious fervor never left it has only migrated toward a new object of worship. In Migrations of the Holy he examines the disconcerting modern transfer of sacred devotion from the church to the nation state. In these chapters