The Saints' Impresarios(English, Hardcover, Bilu Yoram)

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The Saints' Impresarios(English, Hardcover, Bilu Yoram) is written by Bilu Yoram and published by Academic Studies Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1934843717 (ISBN 10) and 9781934843710 (ISBN 13).

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 Saint's Impresarios" 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. This title is for readers interested in Israel and Jewish Studies, folk religion and mysticism, cultural and psychological anthropology, and Moroccan Jews.