Socio-Religious Functions of Worship
What were the socio-religious functions of worship and ritual within ancient Israel? How did worship affect and form Israelite society, and vice versa? To ask this question is not to reduce worship to a mere social phenomenon, lacking, for example, theological witness or spiritual efficacy. Rather,...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2020
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The Oxford handbook of ritual and worship in the Hebrew Bible
Year: 2020, Pages: 459-472 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
Summary: | What were the socio-religious functions of worship and ritual within ancient Israel? How did worship affect and form Israelite society, and vice versa? To ask this question is not to reduce worship to a mere social phenomenon, lacking, for example, theological witness or spiritual efficacy. Rather, it is to recognize that Israelite worship had a social context and, among its several other roles, had significant social effects. It expressed and buttressed the shared values and convictions of the community of YHWH, or, better, of specific Yahwistic groups. It publicly embodied religious orientations and habits. It enacted the traditions and teachings of the societal authority or segment that authorized and choreographed it. Participants in Israelite worship publicly acknowledged the worldview and attendant lifestyle communicated as social meaning by the proceedings. |
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ISBN: | 0190944935 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of ritual and worship in the Hebrew Bible
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222116.013.30 |