Religious history has traditionally concerned itself with the transcendent dimension in human life. But the latter approach can be used to illuminate the ways in which religion works itself out on the social plane. The study of religious life in its popular forms should occupy a prominent place on the agenda of any social and religious history of the Jews.
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Horowitz- Coffee, Coffeehouses, And the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry
Religious history has traditionally concerned itself with the transcendent dimension in human life. But the latter approach can be used to illuminate the ways in which religion works itself out on the social plane. The study of religious life in its popular forms should occupy a prominent place on the agenda of any social and religious history of the Jews.
Religious history has traditionally concerned itself with the transcendent dimension in human life. But the latter approach can be used to illuminate the ways in which religion works itself out on the social plane. The study of religious life in its popular forms should occupy a prominent place on the agenda of any social and religious history of the Jews.