Music and Religious Change Among Progressive Jews in London - Being Liberal and Doing Traditional

This book analyses the role of music in processes of religious change in contemporary progressive Judaism. Based on ethnographic research conducted in London, it illustrates a growing trend among progressive Jews in the West today: the desire to combine liberal theology with forms of practice experienced as more traditional.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Theoretical Starting Points
2. Entering the Ethnographic Field
3. Dinah: Radical and Liberal in Theology, Traditional in Practice
4. Micah: Music as a Bridge between Diverse Jewish Experiences
5. Esther: Singing as a Form of Understanding
6. David: The Wish to Have a Broader Sort of Thing
7. Rachel: "It's Not the Words, It's the Melodies"
Conclusion

About the author

Ruth Illman is docent (associate professor) of comparative religion at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and history of religions at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is currently the director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland.

Summary

This book analyses the role of music in processes of religious change in contemporary progressive Judaism. Based on ethnographic research conducted in London, it illustrates a growing trend among progressive Jews in the West today: the desire to combine liberal theology with forms of practice experienced as more traditional.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Illman, Illman Ruth
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781498542203
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4220-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, RELIGION / Judaism / Reform, MUSIC / Religious / Jewish, Jewish Studies, Judaism: life & practice, Judaism, Theory of music & musicology, Judaism: life and practice, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Theory of music and musicology, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music, Liberal and Reform Judaism