"We Want to See Our King": Apparitions in Messianic Habad

Ethos

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 98-126

  Bilu, Yoram ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apparitions; Habad Hasidism; Messianic ecology; Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneeerson; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873142933     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: 15481352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/etho.12004     Document Type: Article

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