The sacred scroll and the researcher’s body: an autoethnography of Reform Jewish ritual
This article examines the relationship between the researcher’s body and the Torah scroll (Sefer Torah) during participant observation of a Jewish holiday ritual in an Israeli Reform congregation. Using an autoethnographic approach, I show how the Reform Jewish ritual demonstrates that the body is a...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Carfax Publ.
2022
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Journal of contemporary religion
Jahr: 2022, Band: 37, Heft: 2, Seiten: 299-315 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Simchat Thora
/ Hakafah
/ Autoethnografie
/ Selbstreflexion
/ Reformjudentum
/ Ritual
/ Leiblichkeit
/ Identität
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion BH Judentum KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Autoethnography
B Holiness B Ritual B Body B Reform Judaism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article examines the relationship between the researcher’s body and the Torah scroll (Sefer Torah) during participant observation of a Jewish holiday ritual in an Israeli Reform congregation. Using an autoethnographic approach, I show how the Reform Jewish ritual demonstrates that the body is a charged religious symbol and the bearer of family traditions and unconscious understandings of the social order. Through this encounter, I discovered how my position in fieldwork on religion is located at the intersection of my ethnographic discipline, my religious habitus, and my identity as a gay man. Reflexive analysis of my active and passive behavior during the observation offered an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the differences between myself and the congregation. Thus, I suggest that anthropologists, even when researching their culture, must be aware of the elements that make up their own identities. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2060536 |