"Ritual and practice are some of the most defining features of religion, linked with its central beliefs. Discussing the wide range of Jewish ritual and practice, this volume provides a contemporary guide to this significant aspect of religious life and experience. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, this volume describes not only what takes place, but the reasons behind this and the implications both the theory and practice have for our understanding of Judaism. Organised in terms of texts, periods,practices, languages, and relationships with the other, the book includes accounts of prayer, food, history, synagogues, and the various legal and ideological debates that exist within Judaism with the focus on how they influence practice. Coming at a time of renewed interest in the role of the body in religion, this book aims to bring the theoretical and scriptural issues which arise in this area of Jewish life and culture up to date. This volume is aimed at students and researchers working in Jewish Studies specifically, and religious studies in general. Designed to be helpful to those on courses in relevant areas, especially in the United States, this book includes substantial bibliographical material"--
Ritual and practice are some of the most defining features of religion, linked with its central beliefs. Discussing the wide range of Jewish ritual and practice, this volume provides a contemporary guide to this significant aspect of religious life and experience.
Part 1: Texts
1. The Jewish Bible
2. Midrash
3. Talmud
4. Ambiguity and
Notation: Jewish Law and Legal Pluralism Part 2: Periods
5. Archaeology
6.
See and Sanctify: Medieval Ashkenaz and Italy
7. Visualizations of Rituals in
Medieval Book Culture
8. Material Culture in the Jewish Medieval World of
Islam: Books, Clothing and Houses
9. The Ritual Turn in the Early Modern
Period
10. Jewish Material Culture in the Modern Age Part 3: Groups
11. A
Study of Two Traditions: Sephardi and Ashkenazi
12. Karaites Judaism: An
Introduction to its Theology and Practices
13. The Modern Orthodox in America
14. Haskalah : Jewish Practice and Romantic Religion
15. Ritual and Practice
in Hasidim
16. Conservative Judaism
17. Reform
18. Jewish Ritual and Social
Justice in America
19. The American Jewish Family
20. A Jewish Family on TV:
Reflections on Ritual Part 4: Practices
21. Circumcision
22. Body Image and
Jewish Rituals and Practices
23. Hair
24. Clothes
25. Food
26. Sanctuary in
Time: Shabbat as the Soul of Modern Jewry and the Essence of Doing Judaism
27. Sometimes God Sneaks Back In: Jewish Secular Rituals
28. For the Amen
Meal, You Dont Have to Keep the Religious Duties: Amen Meals as a New Age
Phenomenon
29. Models of Sexuality (and Marriage) in the Jewish Tradition
30.
Music and the Experience of Jewish Ritual and Practice
31. The Theological
Implications of the State of Israel
32. Death and Dying
33. Between Tradition
and Innovation: Alternative Funerals in Israel Part 5: Languages
34. The
Hebrew Language as a Source of Ritual and Practice
35. The Role of Judezmo/
Ladino in Ottoman Sephardic Jewish Religious Ritual and Practice
36.
Yiddish Part 6: Others
37. Jewish Magical Practices
38. Disabilities and
Inclusion
39. The Early Christian Reception of Jewish Rituals During the
Parting of the Ways
40. Christianity
41. Samaritans
42. Interfaith Rituals
Oliver Leaman teaches at the University of Kentucky and his books include Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy (1995); History of Jewish Philosophy, ed. D. Frank & O. Leaman (Routledge, 1996); Moses Maimonides (Routledge, 1997); A Reader in Jewish Philosophy, ed. D. Frank, O. Leaman & C. Manekin (Routledge, 2000); Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, ed. D. Frank & O. Leaman; Lost in Translation: Essays in Islamic and Jewish Philosophy (2004); Jewish Thought: An Introduction (Routledge, 2006); Judaism: An Introduction (2011). He is editor of the Routledge Jewish Studies Series.
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