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Prayer & Community : The Havurah in American Judaism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©1989Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814344477
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prayer & CommunityDDC classification:
  • 296.387
LOC classification:
  • BM720.F4 .P745 1989
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Decorum in American Judaism: The Sacred in Social Interaction -- 2. Havurah Judaism: Old World Decorum and Countercultural Aesthetics -- 3. A Sabbath Minyan: Organization, Decorum, and Experience -- 4. The Constituents of Minyan Prayer: Community, Interpretation, and Halaha -- 5. The Prayer Crisis -- 6. Praying in the Minyan: Performance and Covenant -- 7. Community, Visibility, and Gender in Prayer -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current theories about ritual and prayer to understand men's and women's struggles with their religious tradition and their desire to create community.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Decorum in American Judaism: The Sacred in Social Interaction -- 2. Havurah Judaism: Old World Decorum and Countercultural Aesthetics -- 3. A Sabbath Minyan: Organization, Decorum, and Experience -- 4. The Constituents of Minyan Prayer: Community, Interpretation, and Halaha -- 5. The Prayer Crisis -- 6. Praying in the Minyan: Performance and Covenant -- 7. Community, Visibility, and Gender in Prayer -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current theories about ritual and prayer to understand men's and women's struggles with their religious tradition and their desire to create community.

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