- Hardcover: 364 pages
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press (15 Dec 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1934843717
- ISBN-13: 978-1934843710
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,536,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 book charts the vicissitudes of four new domestic shrines, established by Moroccan-born men and women in peripheral development towns, 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. For readers interested in Israel and Jewish Studies, folk religion and mysticism, cultural and psychological anthropology, and Moroccan Jews.
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Important to the Field, 7 Feb 2011
By Eric Maroney - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Saint's Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel's Urban Periphery (Israel: Society, Culture, and History) (Hardcover)
Bilu's book explores the role of saint "impresarios" in modern Israel from a psychological and anthropological point of view. These impresarios are mainly Moroccan Jews who reestablished the veneration of Moroccan Jewish saints in the decades following their move to Israel.
Bilu can go a bit long in his psychological analysis of the impresarios of Moroccan saints (and a bit too reductive). But his work is overtly a piece of psychological anthropology, or anthropological psychology, that the reader has been forewarned.
One of the few books to deal with this topic, Bilu's work is invaluable. It offers keen and fresh insight into saint veneration and the lives of those who practices it.
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