De sociogenese van een orthodox-Joods regime in het achttiende eeuwse Polen

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The Sociogenesis of an Orthodox Jewish Regime in Eighteenth-Century Poland. In the anthropology of religion, the rise of religious movements is mainly accounted on the basis of either cultural or sociostructural factors. The theoretical model developed by Mart Bax, engrafted on the ideas of Norbert Elias, with the "religious regime" as the key concept, has led to a well-balanced combination of the two. In this article, the author uses Bax's model in an effort to answer the question of how the sociogenesis of the Hasidic movement took place among the Jews of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. His conclusion is that the church and the state played a prominent role in this development an d that the rise of Hasidism preceded a minor regime of mystics.