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Rethinking Synagogues : A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rethinking Synagogues : A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life about?
A critical and challenging look at reinventing the synagogue, as the centerpiece of a refashioned Jewish community. “America is undergoing a spiritual revolution: only the fourth religious awakening in its history. I plead, therefore, for an equally spiritual synagogue, knowing that any North American Jewish community that hopes to be around in a hundred years must have religion at its center, with the synagogue, the religious institution that best fits North American culture, at its very core.”
Who reads Rethinking Synagogues : A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
- Publisher
- Jewish Lights Publishing
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781580236409
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Judaism, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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