Shaul Magid: "Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the Spector of Hasidism"

The Duke-UNC Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Professor Shaul Magid, Department of Religious Studies and the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies, Modern Judaism at Indiana University who will present a paper entitled "Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the Spector of Hasidism."Professor Magid is the editor of "God's Voice from the Void: Old and New Essays on Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav" (SUNY Press, 2001), co-editor of "Beginning Again: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts" (Seven Bridges Press, 2002) and author of "Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica and Radzin Hasidism" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). His latest book "From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala" (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008) was awarded the 2008 American Academy of Religion Award for best book in religion in the textual studies category. His forthcoming book, "Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness in Post Ethnic America: Ethnicity, Renewal, and Becoming an American Religion," will be published by Indiana University Press. He is presently completing another book entitled Hasidism Incarnate: Divine Embodiment and Redemption in Hasidic Literature. For links to numerous topical and scholarly articles and essays please visit his blog "Radical Banjo" available at www.shaulmagid.net.