Ritual, Reality, And Contemporary Society: The Case Of A Reconstructionist Synagogue
The Reconstructionists' transformation of the traditional sabbath morning liturgy encodes statements regarding the nature and boundaries of sacred castes, times, speech, and space. With respect to all of these realms the effect is to soften the boundaries of once clearly differentiated entities...
| Published in: | Journal of ritual studies |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[1988]
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Journal of ritual studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Blessings
B Judaism B Synagogues B Liturgy B Rabbis B Shawls B Torah B Jewish rituals B Prayer |
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| Summary: | The Reconstructionists' transformation of the traditional sabbath morning liturgy encodes statements regarding the nature and boundaries of sacred castes, times, speech, and space. With respect to all of these realms the effect is to soften the boundaries of once clearly differentiated entities and to value a mixture of sacred and mundane, special and ordinary, religious professional and lay persons. The blurring of these particular boundaries in the congregants' liturgy fits their social allegiances and proclivities regarding participation in North American culture and society. They experience their liturgical practices as particularly appropriate, given their social experience; their patterns of social involvement feel emotionally satisfying and cogent in relation to their liturgy. Just as they participate in the aesthetic, artistic, cultural, economic and social enterprises of higher-status North Americans, they assert a desire to remain Jews, and thus retain, but mix, once highly differentiated realms in their particular variation of the traditional rabbinic sabbath morning liturgy and service. |
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| ISSN: | 0890-1112 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "A Rumor Is Afield (1988)"
Kritik in "In, Out, And In-Between (1988)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ritual studies
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