"This book introduces a practice based and contextually sensitive approach to studying lived religion, employing cases from diverse disciplines, locations, and traditions and providing accessible guides to students and novice researchers eager to begin their own exploration of religious and spiritual practices"--
"This book introduces a practice based and contextually sensitive approach to studying lived religion, employing cases from diverse disciplines, locations, and traditions and providing accessible guides to students and novice researchers eager to begin their own exploration of religious and spiritual practices"--
This book is about embracing change for one of the most sacred ceremonies in Jewish tradition. Cantor Axelrod explains that the ceremony needs to be adapted to a more personal approach, connecting the original traditions to what's most important to the student's life. This allows a more positive path to preparing and learning about the ceremony.
This book is about embracing change for one of the most sacred ceremonies in Jewish tradition. Cantor Axelrod explains that the ceremony needs to be adapted to a more personal approach, connecting the original traditions to what's most important to the student's life. This allows a more positive path to preparing and learning about the ceremony.
CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways ......
Stepping Forward Together can help leaders create their vision and put these changes into perspective and help them take a leadership stance in a challenging world. This book provides a resource that empowers them with planning tools and exercises to engage the community and step forward.
Stepping Forward Together can help leaders create their vision and put these changes into perspective and help them take a leadership stance in a challenging world. This book provides a resource that empowers them with planning tools and exercises to engage the community and step forward.
The purpose of The Jewish Communities in New England is to inform readers about the Jewish community in each of the six New England States: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Factual, inspirational, and poetic, it serves as a scholarly guide to institutions of Jewish life in this dynamic American region. ......
On the Possibility of Steadfast Honesty in Faith and Worship
In Spiritual Integrity, the author argues that religious allegiance needs to co-exist with a parallel commitment to intellectual integrity. There is no way to know what it unknowable, but owning up to the limits of our human ability to perceive and interpret the world can be the beginning of honest faith.
