The Saints' Impresarios

Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel's Urban Periphery

Bibliographic Data

ID19922115
AuthorsYoram Bilu (corresponding author)
TranslatorsHaim Watzman
Year2019
Pages364
Publication date2019-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSaints' Impresarios (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherAcademic Studies Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781618110213
OpenAlexW655845486
Open LibraryOL29102449M
ISBN9781618110213
LanguageEN
Citations received30

The astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950s and 1960s. The Saints' Impresarios charts the vicissitudes of four new domestic shrines, each established by Moroccan-born men and women in a peripheral development town, following an exciting revelation involving a saintly figure. Each of the case studies discussing the life stories of the "saint impresarios" elaborates on a distinctive theme: dreams as psychocultural triggers for revelation; family and community responses to the initiative; female saint impresarios as healers; and the alleviation of life crises through the saint’s idiom. The initiatives are evaluated against the historical background of Jews in Morocco and the sociopolitical and cultural changes in present-day Israeli society. The original Hebrew edition garnered the coveted Bahat Prize (Haifa University Press) for best academic book in 2006. For readers interested in Israel and Jewish Studies, folk religion and mysticism, cultural and psychological anthropology, and Moroccan Jews

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Ethnology · Judaism · Literature · Mysticism · Revelation · SAINT · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Theology · Traditional medicine · Worship · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Latin American history and culture · Medicine · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America · Religious studies · Hasidism · Israel · Moroccan Jews · Morocco · Religion · Shrines · Social life and customs · Zaddikim

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