@article{ref1,
title="The Kabbalah Centre and Contemporary Spirituality",
journal="Religion compass",
year="2008",
author="Myers, Jody",
volume="2",
number="3",
pages="409-420",
abstract="This paper focuses on the Kabbalah Centre, an international new religious movement that popularizes formerly esoteric Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) and attempts to spread it to a universal audience. Like many new religious movements, its cultural and social nonalignment fosters intense opposition as well as attraction, the latter most notably from celebrity followers such as Madonna. I summarize portions of my ethnographic and historical research to illumine some basic aspects of the movement: its connection to Jewish and Christian Kabbalah, its postmodern social structure, and its appeal to both people seeking a spiritual outlook and practice seemingly unconnected to normative, organized religion.<p />",
language="",
issn="1749-8171",
doi="10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00074.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00074.x"
}