UTARCZKA DUCHOWA
CZYLI NAUKA POZNANIA, POKONANIA SAMEGO SIEBIE,
I DOJŚCIA DO PRAWDZIWEJ DOSKONAŁOŚCI CHRZEŚCIJAŃSKIEJ
KS. WAWRZYNIEC SCUPOLI
"Utarczką wojenną jest życie człowieka na ziemi"
(Hiob. VII, 1)
SPIS TREŚCI
Jewish Crypsis in American Buddhism
“From my conversations with many of these Buddhist leaders, they have spoken openly about how their commitments to social justice are shaped by their Jewish upbringings.”
Emily Sigalow, American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change, 2019.
As mentioned in a 2017 review of The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (2010) by Boston College’s Robert Aleksander Maryks, I am especially fascinated by aspects of Jewish group behavior that involve crypsis, a phenomenon that is often facilitated by a combination of deception and self-deception on the part of Jews. To date, the most forthright and convincing theoretical framework for understanding cryptic forms of Judaism is found in Kevin MacDonald’s groundbreaking Separation and Its Discontents: