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- Title
Hasidism and the Routinization of Charisma.
- Authors
Sharot, Stephen
- Abstract
The spread of Hasidism in the Jewish communities of eastern Europe in the last decades of the eighteenth and first decades of the nineteenth century is related to the routinization of charisma in the form of the dynasties of the zaddikim, the leaders of the movement. The coexistence of two principles of charismatic succession, together with multiple succession, resulted in features which contributed to the success of the movement: the continual formation of many new branches, a decentralized and segmental structure, and diversity of religious values and practices.
- Subjects
CHARISMA; JEWISH mysticism; ZADDIKIM; ZADDIKOT; HASIDISM; RELIGIOUS communities; RELIGIOUS movements
- Publication
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1980, Vol 19, Issue 4, p325
- ISSN
0021-8294
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1386127