Prayer and Community: The Havurah Movement in American Judaism

by Riv-Ellen Prell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814319351
• ISBN13: 9780814319352
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.