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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
2022
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 299-315 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Simḥat Torah
/ Hakafah
/ Autoethnografie
/ Self-reflection
/ Reform Judaism
/ Ritual
/ Bodiliness
/ Identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BH Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Autoethnography
B Holiness B Ritual B Body B Reform Judaism |
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