TY - JOUR
T1 - The work of the present
T2 - Constructing messianic temporality in the wake of failed prophecy among Chabad Hasidim
AU - Kravel-Tovi, Michal
AU - Bilu, Yoram
PY - 2008/2
Y1 - 2008/2
N2 - Temporal issues have remained relatively unelaborated in the rich body of research that applies cognitive dissonance theory to millenarian movements following a failed prophecy. We engage these issues by exploring how the meshichistim (messianists) among the Jewish ultraorthodox Chabad (Lubavitch) Hasidim employ temporal categories to deal with the crisis entailed in the death of their leader, the expected Messiah. In messianic Chabad, a double-edged "work of the present" has continued to evolve, simultaneously obfuscating and accentuating temporal delineations between past, present, and future. The ensuing dialectical reality puts into question the common notion that millenarian movements such as Chabad strive at all costs to restore the balance disrupted by failed prophecy.
AB - Temporal issues have remained relatively unelaborated in the rich body of research that applies cognitive dissonance theory to millenarian movements following a failed prophecy. We engage these issues by exploring how the meshichistim (messianists) among the Jewish ultraorthodox Chabad (Lubavitch) Hasidim employ temporal categories to deal with the crisis entailed in the death of their leader, the expected Messiah. In messianic Chabad, a double-edged "work of the present" has continued to evolve, simultaneously obfuscating and accentuating temporal delineations between past, present, and future. The ensuing dialectical reality puts into question the common notion that millenarian movements such as Chabad strive at all costs to restore the balance disrupted by failed prophecy.
KW - Chabad-lubavitch
KW - Cognitive dissonance
KW - Messianic temporality
KW - Millenarian movements
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=61049291242&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00006.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00006.x
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AN - SCOPUS:61049291242
SN - 0094-0496
VL - 35
SP - 64
EP - 80
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
IS - 1
ER -