Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship
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Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship

About this book

More than a series of rites of passage through the landmarks of growing up and growing old, Jewish and Christian life-cycle rituals give the members of each religious tradition theological and ritualized definitions of what a life should be. In this volume, the fourth in the acclaimed series Two Liturgical Traditions, eight scholars explore the models of human life implicit in Judaism and Christianity by unraveling and exploring the evolution and current condition of their life-cycle liturgies. By combining the historical-critical method of traditional scholarship with that of more recent theory drawn from the human sciences, Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship provides a novel treatment of Jewish and Christian life cycles, past and present, and is a unique and invaluable guide to the history, practice, and theology of life-cycle liturgy.

Contributors: Paul F. Bradshaw, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ruth A. Meyers, Debra R. Blank, Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, Marjorie Procter-Smith, and Yoel Kahn.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Christian Rites Related to Birth
  10. Rituals of Birth in Judaism
  11. Christian Rites of Adolescence
  12. Jewish Rites of Adolescence
  13. Christian Marriage Rituals
  14. The Jewish Wedding Ceremony
  15. Christian Rituals Surrounding Sickness
  16. "Visiting the Sick" and the Deathbed Confession in Judaism
  17. Christian Rituals Surrounding Death
  18. Rites of Death and Mourning in Judaism
  19. Contemporary Challenges to Christian Life-Cycle Ritual
  20. Contemporary Challenges to Jewish Life-Cycle Ritual
  21. Conclusion
  22. Contributors
  23. Index