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Revisioning Ritual - Jewish Traditions in Transition (Paperback)
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Revisioning Ritual - Jewish Traditions in Transition (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Cultural Studies, v. 3
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Often overlooked as routine or even dismissed as odd customs,
ritual in its many guises demands attention as a central strategy
for embodying experience. Like other groups, Jews rely on ritual to
provide an inventory of social meanings and a context for
negotiating the challenges of everyday life. Ritual for Jews has
historically carried special meanings for conveying what is Jewish
about Jewishness. It is not enough, however, simply to document
customs: for a full understanding of ritual and its meaning for
participants we need to analyze how ritual expressions, such as
liturgies, holidays, life-cycle events - even political rallies -
change in response to developments in the wider society, or are
adapted to meet new needs. The innovative studies of adapted,
invented, and evolving rituals are presented in this volume,
including the Tunisian Jewish celebration of Se'udat Yitro,
liturgical prayers for Israel Independence Day, shiva observance in
an old-age home, transplanted Ethiopian Jewish wedding events, and
same-sex marriage rituals. These interpret the Jewish enactment of
ritual and uses of tradition in everyday life against the
background of modernity and community. It is the complexities of
ritual - the dynamics of negotiating the religious and the secular,
the traditional and the modern, the social and the political,
performance and practice - that form the core of the book.
Together, the contributions show ritual action to be key to the
maintenance of Jewish identity and to the expression of a
distinctive world-view. 'A worthy read for anyone interested in
Jewish ritual.' David Tesler, AJL Reviews
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