Rites of passage how today's Jews celebrate, commemorate, and commiserate /

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Scholars tend to call them "rites of passage." Most people prefer to speak of them as life-cycle events or milestones. Jews like to speak of simchas, when there's something (a birth, bar or bat mitzvah, or a wedding) to celebrate. These are key moments for individuals and for the fami...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Creighton University. Kripke Center for the Study of Religion & Society, Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies, Klutznick-Harris Symposium
Otros Autores: Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, Ã2010.
Colección:Studies in Jewish civilization ; 21.
Temas:
Judaism > Customs and practices > Congresses.
Life cycle, Human > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses.
Life change events > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses.
Jewish way of life > Congresses.
Religious groups: social & cultural aspects.
Jewish way of life.
Judaism > Customs and practices.
Life change events > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Life cycle, Human > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Social groups: religious groups & communities
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
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  • Cover
  • Rites of Passage: How Today's Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate Studies in Jewish Civilization Volume 21
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editor's Introduction
  • Contributors
  • "What Makes a Bat Mitzvah Blossom": Pre-Bat Mitzvah Rituals for Daughters and Mothers
  • More Bar Than Mitzvah: Anxieties over Bar Mitzvah Receptions in Postwar America
  • Becoming Orthodox Women: Rites of Passage in the Orthodox Community
  • Talking about the Jewish Wedding Ritual: Issues of Gender, Power, and Social Control
  • The Making of a Rabbi: Semichah Ordination from Moses to Grosses
  • Perspectives on Evaluating New Jewish Rituals
  • Memory, Questions and Definitions: Images of Old and New Rites of Passage
  • A Need for New Rituals? American Judaism and the Holocaust
  • Karaism: An Alternate Form of Jewish Celebration
  • Without a Minyan: Creating a Jewish Life in a Small Midwestern Town
  • Raising the Bar, Maximizing the Mitzvah: Jewish Rites of Passage for Children with Autism

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