A discussion with Professor Marla Segol (University at Buffalo) on her recently published book "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: a Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Penn State University Press, 2021). Jason Sion Mokhtarian and Sara Warner (Cornell University) will serve as interlocutors for the discussion.
This Zoom webinar will be held on November 3 at 5 p.m. EDT. Registration is required. Register at cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cB6RQmyERD28R6YWyZVBWw
In this provocative book, Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New Age ritual practice.
Marla Segol is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah: The Texts, Commentaries, and Diagrams of the “Sefer Yetsirah” and coeditor of Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts.
