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Coverage: United States Coverage: United States Language: eng Publisher: Wayne State University Press Subject: Fellowship--Religious aspects--Judaism Subject: HISTORY / Jewish Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection Collection: Wayne State University eBooks-
Prayer & community: the havurah in American Judaism
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 history and ethnography, Prell uses current th…