Prayer & Community

The Havurah in American Judaism

By: Riv-Ellen Prell

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Paperback | 5 February 2018

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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.

Riv-Ellen Prell spent eighteen months of participant observation field research studying a countercultural havurah to determine why these groups emerged in the United States during the 1970s. In her book, she explores the central questions posed by the early havurot and their founders. She also examines the havurah as a development of American Judaism, continuing--rather than rejecting--many of the previous generations' ideas about religion. 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.

Industry Reviews

Pathbreaking work on Havurot and their implications for a Jewish religious revival in contemporary America.--Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
The best single study of the phenomenon we call the havurah, an insightful analysis of religious worship, and a superior multi-disciplinary synthesis of theory.--Religious Studies Review

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