TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ariel, Yaakov S.
T1  - A New Kind of Jew
T2  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien [23 (2017)] = JewBus, Jewish Hindus & other Jewish Encounters with East Asian Religions
T2  - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies [23 (2017)] = JewBus, Jewish Hindus & other Jewish Encounters with East Asian Religions
N2  - The article examines Allen Ginsberg’s spiritual path, and places his interest in Asian religions within larger cultural agendas and life choices. While identifying as a Jew, Ginsberg wished to transcend beyond his parents’ orbit and actively sought to create an inclusive, tolerant, and permissive society where persons such as himself could live and create at ease. He chose elements from the Christian, Jewish, Native-American, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, weaving them together into an ever-growing cultural and spiritual quilt. The poet never underwent a conversion experience or restricted his choices and freedoms. In Ginsberg’s understanding, Buddhism was a universal, non-theistic religion that meshed well with an individualist outlook, and worked toward personal solace and mindfulness. He and other Jews saw no contradiction between enchantment with Buddhism and their Jewish identity.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40895
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-408952
SN  - 978-3-86956-418-0
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
IS  - 23
SP  - 133
EP  - 148
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -