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Metropolitan Jews

Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit

Lila Corwin Berman

University of Chicago Press, 2015

In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit’s Jews played in the city’s well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century urban transformations, Metropolitan Jews tells the story of Jews leaving the city while retaining a deep connection to it. Berman argues convincingly that though most Jews moved to the suburbs, urban abandonment, disinvestment, and an embrace of conservatism did not invariably accompany their moves. Instead, the Jewish postwar migration was marked by an enduring commitment to a newly fashioned urbanism with a vision of self, community, and society that persisted well beyond city limits.

Complex and subtle, Metropolitan Jews pushes urban scholarship beyond the tenacious black/white, urban/suburban dichotomy. It demands a more nuanced understanding of the process and politics of suburbanization and will reframe how we think about the American urban experiment and modern Jewish history.

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Mexican American Religions

Spirituality, Activism, and Culture

Gastón Espinosa and Mario T. García, eds.

Duke University Press, 2008

This collection presents a rich, multidisciplinary inquiry into the role of religion in the Mexican American community. Breaking new ground by analyzing the influence of religion on Mexican American literature, art, activism, and popular culture, it makes the case for the establishment of Mexican American religious studies as a distinct, recognized field of scholarly inquiry. Scholars of religion, Latin American, and Chicano/a studies as well as of sociology, anthropology, and literary and performance studies, address several broad themes. Taking on questions of history and interpretation, they examine the origins of Mexican American religious studies and Mario Barrera’s theory of internal colonialism. In discussions of the utopian community founded by the preacher and activist Reies López Tijerina, César Chávez’s faith-based activism, and the Los Angeles-based Católicos Por La Raza movement of the late 1960s, other contributors focus on mystics and prophets. Still others illuminate popular Catholicism by looking at Our Lady of Guadalupe, home altars, and Los Pastores dramas (nativity plays) as vehicles for personal, social, and political empowerment.

Turning to literature, contributors consider Gloria Anzaldúa’s view of the borderlands as a mystic vision and the ways that Chicana writers invoke religious symbols and rhetoric to articulate a moral vision highlighting social injustice. They investigate the role of healing, looking at it in relation to both the Latino Pentecostal movement and the practice of the curanderismo tradition in East Los Angeles. Delving into to popular culture, they reflect on Luis Valdez’s video drama La Pastorela: “The Shepherds’ Play,” the spirituality of Chicana art, and the religious overtones of the reverence for the slain Tejana music star Selena. This volume signals the vibrancy and diversity of the practices, arts, traditions, and spiritualities that reflect and inform Mexican American religion.

Contributors: Rudy V. Busto, Davíd Carrasco, Socorro Castañeda-Liles, Gastón Espinosa, Richard R. Flores, Mario T. García, María Herrera-Sobek, Luís D. León, Ellen McCracken, Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett, Laura E. Pérez, Roberto Lint Saragena, Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Kay Turner

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Mexico Mystique

The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness

Frank Waters

Ohio University Press, 1989

In Mexico Mystique Frank Waters draws us deeply into the ancient but still-living myths of Mexico. To reveal their hidden meanings and their powerful symbolism, he brings to bear his gift for intuitive imagination as well as a broad knowledge of anthropology, Jungian psychology, astrology, and Eastern and esoteric religions. He offers a startling interpretation of the Mayan Great Cycle — our present Fifth World — whose beginning has been projected to 3113 B.C., and whose cataclysmic end has been predicted by 2011 A.D.

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Micah

Introduction and Commentary

Carolyn J. Sharp

SBL Press, 2025

Written by Carolyn J. Sharp, a leading scholar of biblical prophetic literature, this commentary provides scholars and preachers with a thorough overview of historical, literary, and theological dimensions of the book of Micah. Sharp explores the political and economic dimensions of prophecy as well as its relevance to ecological justice. Each passage is translated and interpreted in an accessible style. The commentary also examines the reception history of Micah among Jewish and Christian interpreters in the History of Consequences section.

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Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics

Elizabeth Campbell Corey

University of Missouri Press, 2006

For much of his career, British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott was identified with Margaret Thatcher’s conservative policies. He has been called by some a guru to the Tories, while others have considered him one of the last proponents of British Idealism. Best known for such books as Experience and Its Modes and Rationalism in Politics, Oakeshott has been the subject of numerous studies, but always with an emphasis on his political thought.

Elizabeth Campbell Corey now makes the case that Oakeshott’s moral and political philosophies are more informed by religious and aesthetic considerations than has previously been supposed. Hers is the first book-length study of this premise, arguing that Oakeshott’s views on aesthetics, religion, and morality are intimately linked in a creative moral personality that underlies his political theorizing.

Corey focuses on a wealth of early material from Oakeshott’s career that has only recently been published, as well as his acclaimed “Tower of Babel” essays, to show that these works illuminate his thinking in ways that could not have been realized prior to their publication. She places Oakeshott squarely in the Augustinian tradition, citing his 1929 essay “Religion and the World,” and then identifies his departure from it. She explores Oakeshott’s recurring theme of “living one’s life in the present”; examines his explicit discussions of religion, aesthetics, and morality; and then considers his political thought in light of this moral vision. She finally compares his idea of Rationalism to Eric Voegelin’s concept of
Gnosticism and considers both thinkers’ treatment of Hobbes to delineate their philosophical differences.

Through this insightful analysis, Corey shows Oakeshott to be not merely a political philosopher but a thinker with humanistic interests—one who throughout his life was deeply interested in the question of what it means to be human and was moved by art, poetry, and religion while recognizing the necessary evil of political arrangements in order for those activities to flourish. Her work is a major step in a reevaluation of Oakeshott, showing that his conservatism has been greatly misunderstood and that he is more properly regarded as a philosopher whose vision of the human condition, while oftentimes detached and skeptical, is also romantic and inspired.

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Michoacán and Eden

Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico

By Bernardino Verástique

University of Texas Press, 2000

Don Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán in Western Mexico. Driven by the desire to convert the native Purhépecha-Chichimec peoples to a purified form of Christianity, free of the corruptions of European Catholicism, he sought to establish New World Edens in Michoacán by congregating the people into pueblo-hospital communities, where mendicant friars could more easily teach them the fundamental beliefs of Christianity and the values of Spanish culture.

In this broadly synthetic study, Bernardino Verástique explores Vasco de Quiroga's evangelizing project in its full cultural and historical context. He begins by recreating the complex and not wholly incompatible worldviews of the Purhépecha and the Spaniards at the time of their first encounter in 1521. With Quiroga as a focal point, Verástique then traces the uneasy process of assimilation and resistance that occurred on both sides as the Spaniards established political and religious dominance in Michoacán. He describes the syncretisms, or fusions, between Christianity and indigenous beliefs and practices that arose among the Purhépecha and relates these to similar developments in other regions of Mexico.

Written especially for students and general readers, this book demonstrates how cultural and geographical environments influence religious experience, while it adds to our understanding of the process of indigenous appropriation of Christian theological concepts in the New World.

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Migration and Diaspora

Exegetical Voices of Women in Northeast Asian Countries

Hisako Kinukawa

SBL Press, 2014

Engage and explore readings from a multi-religious, globalized, multicultural region

The papers in this collection were presented at the third meeting of the Society of Asian Biblical Studies held at the Sabah Theological Seminary, Malaysia in 2012. The essays represent the work of women/feminist scholars in biblical hermeneutics in this region who have raised questions against traditional, male-centered interpretations, offering distinct perspectives based on their experiences of pain, subjugation, and a forced sacrificial philosophy of life.

Features:

Articles focused on finding justice for women through dialogue with biblical texts
Reflections on migration, diaspora, displacement, discrimination, and conditions generated by poverty and systemic oppression
Five essays from women in China, Japan, and Korea

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Militant Zionism in America

The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948

Rafael Medoff

University of Alabama Press, 2006

This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills
a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism.

This book recounts the fascinating and little-known story
of the militant American Zionists who lobbied Congress, rallied American
public opinion, and influenced British-American relations in their campaign
for Jewish statehood in the 1930s and 1940s. Although these activists have
been dismissed as fanatics who fragmented the American Zionist movement,
Rafael Medoff reveals that the faction--which included an Academy Award-winning
screenwriter and several future members of the Israeli parliament--was
more influential than has been previously acknowledged.

These militants stirred America's conscience by placing
controversial newspaper ads, lobbying conservative as well as liberal members
of Congress, and staging dramatic protest rallies. Through these tactics,
Medoff shows, they attracted a wave of support from an extraordinary cross-section
of leading Americans, including comedians Harpo Marx and Carl Reiner, actors
Vincent Price, Marlon Brando, and Jane Wyatt, musician Leonard Bernstein,
and rising young politicians Jacob Javits and Hubert Humphrey. Medoff also
describes the shadowy underground division that smuggled weapons to the
Holy Land in caskets, naming and interviewing for the first time members
of this gunrunning network.

Based on years of archival research and interviews and
written in a compelling style, Militant Zionism in America documents
events that reshaped the American Jewish community, influenced American
foreign policy, and contributed to one of the most extraordinary events
of modern history: the creation of the State of Israel.

Rafael Medoff is a Visiting Scholar at the State University of New York -- Purchase College.

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Millennial Praises

A Shaker Hymnal

Christian Goodwillie

University of Massachusetts Press, 2009

From the very beginning in the 1770s, singing was an important part of the worship services of the Shakers, formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. Yet until the early nineteenth century, nearly all Shaker songs were wordless—expressed in unknown tongues or as enthusiastic vocalizations. Only when Shaker missionaries moved west into Ohio and Kentucky did they begin composing hymn texts, chiefly as a means of conveying the sect's unconventional religious ideas to new converts. In 1812–13, the Shakers published their first hymnal. This venture, titled Millennial Praises, included the texts without music for one hundred and forty hymns and elucidated the radical and feminist theology of the Shakers, neatly distilled in verse. This scholarly edition of the hymnal joins the texts to original Shaker tunes for the first time. One hundred and twenty-six of the tunes preserved in the Society's manuscript hymnals have been transcribed from Shaker musical notation into modern standard notation, thus opening this important religious and folk repertoire to modern scholars. Many texts are presented with a wide range of variant tunes from Shaker communities in New England, New York, Ohio, and Kentucky. Introductory essays by volume editors Christian Goodwillie and Jane F. Crosthwaite place Millennial Praises in the context of Shaker history and offer a thorough explication of the Society's theology. They track the use of the hymnal from the point of publication up to the present day, beginning with the use of the hymns by both Shaker missionaries and anti-Shaker apostates and ending with the current use of the hymns by the last remaining Shaker family at Sabbathday Lake, Maine. The volume includes a CD of historical recordings of six Shaker songs by Brother Ricardo Belden, the last member of the Society at Hancock Shaker Village.

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Millions of Gifts for the Gods

The Feather Distribution Project

Jonathan Reyman

University Press of Colorado, 2025

In Millions of Gifts for the Gods, Jonathan E. Reyman chronicles a remarkable thirty-four-year applied anthropology initiative that bridged ancient traditions with contemporary conservation challenges. From 1982 to 2015 the Feather Distribution Project addressed the critical need for macaw, parrot, and wild turkey feathers essential to Pueblo religious practices, directly supporting their constitutional right to freedom of religion.

Grounded in Sol Tax’s concept of “action anthropology,” the project facilitated community-driven decision-making rather than imposing external solutions. This collaborative approach enabled Indigenous communities to maintain cultural practices that have persisted for over a millennium, dating back to the Ancestral Pueblo people and the Mogollon and Sinagua tribes, who viewed birds as sacred beings that helped humans emerge from the underworld. Yet the project’s impact extended far beyond cultural preservation. Over three decades, it distributed approximately 14.5 million feathers, valued at $20 million, to the Southwest Pueblos and other Indigenous Americans at no cost to them. Through partnerships with turkey hunters, zoos, bird clubs, the National Wild Turkey Federation, and dozens of volunteers, the initiative reduced illegal bird smuggling from Latin America, alleviated pressure on threatened bird populations, and eliminated harmful plucking practices.

Millions of Gifts for the Gods is an extended case study in applied anthropology, demonstrating how sustained collaboration between anthropologists and Indigenous communities can effectively address complex cultural, legal, and environmental challenges while preserving sacred traditions. This unique project is of special interest to anthropologists working in the American Southwest, as well as students and scholars of archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory.

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Milton’s Earthly Paradise

A Historical Study of Eden

Joseph E. Duncan

University of Minnesota Press, 1972

Milton's Earthly Paradise was first published in 1972. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

This study provides a history of the changing interpretations of the first earthly paradise—the garden of Eden—in Western thought and relates Paradise Lost and other literary works to this paradise tradition. The author traces the beginnings of the tradition as they appear in the Bible and in classical literature and shows how these two strains were joined in early Christian and medieval literature. His emphasis, however, is on the relation of Paradise Lost to Renaissance commentary and to other literary works of the period dealing with the paradise story.

Professor Duncan views Paradise Lost as one of many Renaissance works that reveal an untiring effort to understand and explain the first chapters of Genesis. In the rational and humanistic commentary of the Renaissance, he explains, the aim was to provide an interpretation of the literal sense of the Scriptural account that was credible, detailed, and historically valid. He finds that the cumulative influence of the commentary is reflected in Milton's attention to the location of paradise, the emphasis on the natural and the rational in his description of paradise, and in the importance of the typological relationship between the terrestrial and celestial paradises. This illuminating discussion makes it clear that Milton's re-creation of paradise is not only superb poetry but also a penetrating account of the origins of man, involving highly complex and controversial issues.

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Mimetic Politics

Dyadic Patterns in Global Politics

Roberto Farneti

Michigan State University Press, 2015

War, violence, and the disruption of social orders are critical areas of focus in mimetic theory, and a mimetic perspective applied to the study of politics illuminates social processes and phenomena over and beyond typical explanations offered by mainstream political science. Unlike traditional political science ontology, the mimetic perspective highlights neither individuals nor groups, but “doubles,” or “mimetic twins.” According to this perspective, in order to grasp the fundamental rationales of political processes, we need to concentrate on the distinctive propensity of either individuals or groups to engage in mimetic contests resulting from their unreflective disposition to imitate each other’s desire. This disposition has been strikingly described by the French-American anthropologist Rene Girard: “Once his basic needs are satisfied (indeed sometimes even before), man is subject to intense desires, though he may not know precisely for what.” Via mimetic theory, Farneti highlights phenomena that political scientists have consistently failed to notice, such as reciprocal imitation as the fundamental cause of human discord, the mechanisms of spontaneous polarization in human conflicts (i.e., the emergence of dyads or “doubles”), and the strange and ever-growing resemblance of the mimetic rivals, which is precisely what pushes them to annihilate each other.

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Mimetic Theory and Its Shadow

Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence

Scott Cowdell

Michigan State University Press, 2023

Leading Girardian theologian Scott Cowdell seeks to resolve a long-standing challenge to mimetic theory: that it entails a fundamental brutishness—an ontological violence. Girard’s account of scapegoating violence, seen as providing the initial stability for our species to emerge and consolidate, hardly seems compatible with Christian belief in God’s good creation, with violence only appearing after a subsequent Fall. The brilliant but controversial theologian John Milbank has long raised this concern about Girard, grounded in a remarkably sophisticated (though seldom fathomed) philosophical theology. Unpacking Milbank’s program, along with Girard’s recasting of Continental philosophy in light of mimetic theory, Cowdell finds a way between two apparently irreconcilable positions. With irenic spirit but analytic tenacity, he probes for ways through Milbank’s arguments while pressing on growth points in Girard’s. Cowdell’s proposals involve reframing divine creation in light of salvation history, reimagining divine participation by thinking Christ and evolution together, and developing a semiotic approach to mimetic theory that delivers ontological peace hermeneutically. Cowdell shows how Girard’s vision of human transformation through faith in Christ reveals a different world beyond ontological violence while preserving the divine participation that Milbank champions.

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Mimetic Theory and World Religions

Wolfgang Palaver

Michigan State University Press, 2017

Those who anticipated the demise of religion and the advent of a peaceful, secularized global village have seen the last two decades confound their predictions. René Girard’s mimetic theory is a key to understanding the new challenges posed by our world of resurgent violence and pluralistic cultures and traditions. Girard sought to explain how the Judeo-Christian narrative exposes a founding murder at the origin of human civilization and demystifies the bloody sacrifices of archaic religions. Meanwhile, his book Sacrifice, a reading of conflict and sacrificial resolution in the Vedic Brahmanas, suggests that mimetic theory’s insights also resonate with several non-Western religious and spiritual traditions. This volume collects engagements with Girard by scholars of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism and situates them within contemporary theology, philosophy, and religious studies.

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Mind Of The Universe

Understanding Science & Religion

Mariano Artigas

Templeton Press, 2001

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Ministry to the Sick and Dying in the Late Medieval Church

Thomas M. Izbicki

Catholic University of America Press, 2023

The focus of this volume is on ministry to the sick and dying in the later Middle Ages, especially providing them with the sacraments. Medieval writers linked illness to sin and its forgiveness. The priest, as physician of souls, was expected to heal the soul, preparing it for the hereafter. His ministry might also effect healing of bodies, when that healing did not endanger the soul. This book treats how a priest prepared to visit sick persons and went to them in procession with the Eucharist and oil of the sick. The priest was to comfort the patient and, if death was imminent, prepare the soul for the hereafter. Canon law, theology, and ritual sources are employed. Three sacraments, penance, viaticum, (final communion) and extreme unction (anointing of the sick) are treated in detail. Sickbed confession was designed to forgive the ailing person's mortal sins. A priest could absolve a dying person of all sins, even those reserved to a bishop or the pope. Viaticum was to strengthen a suffering Christian for life's last conflict, that between angels and demons for the soul of the dying person. The deathbed thus was a spiritual battlefield. Extreme unction was reserved for those in danger of death, relieving the soul of venial sins or "the remains of sin," even after confession and absolution. The commendatio animae (commendation of the soul) used with the dying was to usher the soul into the afterlife. Many works have been written about attitudes toward death, dying, and the afterlife in the Middle Ages. Likewise, there is a good deal of literature about individual sacraments. This study aims at bridging between these literatures, with a focus on the priest and parishioner in both theory and practice at the sickbed.

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Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess

A Near Eastern Koine

Nanno Marinatos

University of Illinois Press, 2010

Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbors. Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece's glory, Nanno Marinatos considers ancient Crete in the context of its powerful competitors to the east and south.

Analyzing the symbols of the Minoan theocratic system and their similarities to those of Syria, Anatolia, and Egypt, Marinatos unlocks many Minoan visual riddles and establishes what she calls a "cultural koine," or standard set of cultural assumptions, that circulated throughout the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean at the time Minoan civilization reached its peak. With more than one hundred and fifty illustrations, Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess delivers a comprehensive reading of Minoan art as a system of thought.

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Miracle Discourse in the New Testament

Duane F. Watson

SBL Press, 2012

This volume explores the rhetorical role that miracle discourse plays in the argumentation of the New Testament and early Christianity. The investigation includes both the rhetoric within miracle discourse and the rhetorical role of miracle discourse as it was incorporated into the larger works in which it is now a part. The volume also examines the social, cultural, religious, political, and ideological associations that miracle discourse had in the first-century Mediterranean world, bringing these insights to bear on the broader questions of early Christian origins. The contributors are L. Gregory Bloomquist, Wendy Cotter, David A. deSilva, Davina C. Lopez, Gail O'Day, Todd Penner, Vernon K. Robbins, and Duane F. Watson.

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Mishkan Aveilut

Where Grief Resides

Rabbi Eric Weiss

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2019

Grief often reweaves our lives into a different way of experiencing the world. Mishkan Aveilut is designed to complement the anchors of our tradition that contain, guide, and support us as we familiarize ourselves with and move through our terrain of grief. This beautiful companion to Mishkan R'fuah: Where Healing Resides offers readings, poems, and meditations to support the emotional and spiritual needs that naturally arise at a time of loss. With opportunities for nourishment, contemplation, and emotional renewal, the collection is meant to be used as a resource for spiritual leaders and individuals alike.

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Mishkan Ga'avah

Where Pride Dwells: A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual

Rabbi Denise L. Eger

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2020

This groundbreaking collection of LGBTQ prayers, poems, liturgy, and rituals is both a spiritual resource and a celebratory affirmation of Jewish diversity. Giving voice to the private and public sectors of queer Jewish experience, Mishkan Ga'avah is also a commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of both the Stonewall Riots and the first pride march, reflecting the longtime advocacy of the Reform Movement for full LGBTQ inclusion.

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Mishkan Moeid

A Guide to the Jewish Seasons

Rabbi Peter S. Knobel, PhD

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2013

Newly revised and updated edition of the CCAR classic Gates of the Seasons, this new volume presents a survey of the sacred days of the Jewish yearly cycle. Providing detailed guidance on observing Shabbat and the Jewish holidays, including historical background, essays, and extensive notes, Mishkan Moeid is perfect for Introduction to Judaism classes and conversion candidates, as well as personal study for those wishing to reconnect or deepen their relationship to Judaism.

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Mishkan R'fuah

Where Healing Resides

Rabbi Eric Weiss

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2013

This beautiful compilation contains contemplative readings and prayers for many different moments of spiritual need, including illness, surgery, treatment, hearing good news, transitions, addiction, infertility, end-of-life, and more.

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Mishkan T'filah Weekdays and Festivals Large Print

A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2007

Includes services for weekdays, festivals, and other occasions of public worship. Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement, including texts for more than a hundred songs. Available in large print for the visually impaired.

This volume is for weekdays and festivals only, and does not include Shabbat liturgy.

This Siddur includes:

Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations 
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Full transliteration
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads
Two-color printing to enhance usability

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Mishkan T'filah Weekdays and Festivals, Non-transliterated

A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2007

Includes services for weekdays, festivals, and other occasions of public worship. Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement, including texts for more than a hundred songs.

This volume is for weekdays and festivals only. This version does not include Shabbat liturgy or transliteration.

This Siddur does include:

Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations 
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads
Two-color printing to enhance usability

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Mishkan T'filah World Union Edition

Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2010

Including services for Shabbat, weekdays and festivals as well as other occasions of public worship, and texts for more than a hundred songs, Mishkan T’filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement. This new Siddur includes: • Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history • Faithful, elegant translations • Contemporary, gender-inclusive English • Theological and stylistic diversity • Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides • More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts • Choice of transliterated and non-transliterated editions • Innovative design in two-page spreads (additional Shabbat services in linear style also included) • Two-color printing to enhance usability

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Mishkan T'filah for Gatherings

A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Sue Ann Wasserman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2009

A lightweight edition combining weekday and Shabbat services. Perfect for meetings, conferences, kallot, and retreats.

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Mishkan T'filah for Shabbat Evening

Rabbi Elsye D. Frishman, Rabbi Hara E Person, Rafael Chaiken, Rabbi Annie Villarreal-Belford

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2026

Mishkan T’filah: Siddur for Shabbat Evening is a comprehensively revised twentieth-anniversary edition of the prayer book for Friday night. Since its publication in 2007, under the leadership of Rabbi Elyse Frishman, Mishkan T’filah: A Reform Siddur has reinvigorated worship and become a beloved part of the Jewish landscape.

This new edition includes the complete Kabbalat Shabbat and Arvit services, along with the Torah service for communities that read Torah on Friday nights as well as an appendix of favorite songs. This lightweight yet durable hardcover features updated translations, full transliteration, additional liturgical texts, and a refreshed and streamlined layout. A wealth of new readings have been added to the left-hand pages, alongside indispensable classics. Gender-neutral and nonbinary options ensure that all worshipers can feel welcome. Songs that have become integral to Reform services in the past twenty years are conveniently placed next to prayers. Mishkan T’filah: Siddur for Shabbat Evening will rejuvenate your Shabbat experience.

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Mishkan T'filah for Travelers

A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Sue Ann Wasserman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2009

This compact, paperback version of Mishkan T'filah integrates weekday and Shabbat services into an easily transportable volume while still remaining faithful to the style and spirit of Mishkan T'filah.

Also includes Festival liturgy.

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Mishkan T'filah for the House of Mourning, Large Print

A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elaine S. Zecher and Rabbi Hara E. Person

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

An innovative approach to services in the house of mourning. Includes thoughtful readings and commentary from traditional and contemporary sources. Easy-to-transport paperback format. Available in large print for those with vision impairments.

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Mishkan T'filah for the House of Mourning

A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elaine S. Zecher and Rabbi Hara E. Person

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2010

An innovative approach to services in the house of mourning. Includes thoughtful readings and commentary from traditional and contemporary sources. Easy-to-transport paperback format.

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Mishkan T'filah

A Reform Siddur, non-transliterated (Shabbat, Weekdays, Festivals): A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2007

Includes services for Shabbat, weekdays, and festivals, as well as other occasions of public worship and texts for more than a hundred songs. Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement.

This volume does not contain transliteration.

This Siddur includes:

Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads (additional Shabbat services in linear style also included)
Two-color printing to enhance usability

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Mishkan T'filah

A Reform Siddur, transliterated (Shabbat, Weekdays, Festivals): A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2007

Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Full transliteration
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads (additional Shabbat services in linear style also included)
Two-color printing to enhance usability

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Mishkan T'filah

Gift Edition

Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2007

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Mishkan T'filah

Journal Edition, Non-transliterated: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Joel Abraham and Michelle Shapiro Abraham, RJE

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2010

Invite your students to create their own commentary, questions, poetry, and responses to the prayers in Mishkan T'filah. For b'nai mitzvah students, confirmation class, and youth groups. Some pages will have creative, challenging prompts to stimulate thoughts, and other pages will be entirely blank, allowing users space to explore and reflect. Created by Michelle Shapiro Abraham and Joel Abraham.

Note: Page numbers in this special edition are meant to be consistent with the page numbering of the standard, complete edition of Mishkan T'filah. However, because the Journal Edition does not contain some of the material from the complete edition, there are several jumps in page numbering in this edition.

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Mishkan T'filah

Journal Edition: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Joel Abraham and Michelle Shapiro Abraham

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2010

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Mishkan T'filah

Large Print, Shabbat: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

Including services for Shabbat and texts for more than a hundred songs, Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement. Available in large print for the visually impaired.

This volume is for Shabbat only, and does not include weekday and festival liturgy.

This Siddur includes:

Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations 
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Full transliteration
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads (additional Shabbat services in linear style also included)
Two-color printing to enhance usability

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Mishkan T'filah

Pulpit Edition: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2010

The Pulpit Edition is an oversize version of the complete edition of Mishkan T'filah, in 3-ring binder format (binder not included). It is meant for use on the bimah or for the purpose of preparing service participants.

Purchase of this volume grants the buyer the right to make copies on a one-time basis for the purpose of practice or preparation only. These pages are not to be used for the creation of new services or for publication of any kind.

Each page contains a copyright notice.

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Mishkan T'filah

Shabbat, non-transliterated: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

Including services for Shabbat and texts for more than a hundred songs, Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement. This volume is for Shabbat only and does not include weekday and festival liturgy.

This volume does not contain transliteration.

This Siddur includes:

Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations 
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads (additional Shabbat services in linear style also included)
Two-color printing to enhance usability

[more]

Mishkan T'filah

Shabbat, transliterated: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

Including services for Shabbat and texts for more than a hundred songs, Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement.

This volume is for Shabbat only and does not include weekday and festival liturgy.

This Siddur includes:

Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Full transliteration
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads (additional Shabbat services in linear style also included)
Two-color printing to enhance usability

[more]

Mishkan T'filah

Special Large Print Edition - Three-Volume Set: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

This Special Large Print edition is an oversize three volume set, created with the support of Women of Reform Judaism and in consultation with the Jewish Braille Institute. Each spiral bound volume uses specific layout and fonts meant to make the pages of Mishkan T'filah accessible to those with significant visual impairment.

Available only as a set of 3:
Volume 1 - Shabbat
Volume 2 - Weekdays and Festivals
Volume 3 - Supplementary Material (Blessings for the Home, Songs, Sources, Permissions)

Coil Binding
Hebrew-opening
Transliterated

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Mishkan T'filah

Weekdays/Festivals, transliterated: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

Includes services for weekdays, festivals, and other occasions of public worship. Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement, including texts for more than a hundred songs.

This volume is for weekdays and festivals only and does not include Shabbat liturgy.

This Siddur includes:

Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations 
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Full transliteration
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads
Two-color printing to enhance usability

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Mishkan T'filah

World Union Edition: A Reform Siddur

Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

This version of Mishkan T'filah has been adapted to allow for the more traditional practices of the Progressive communities in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, but can readily be used in all English-speaking regions of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Specifically, this version of Mishkan T'filah reflects a different approach to seasonal references. It includes longer versions of certain prayers in accordance with regional customs, extended annotations and page notes, a variety of new readings and prayers, as well as various new indexes to navigate the book, including an index of all the English readings by category. Even for the communities in North America, this version of Mishkan T'filah is a valuable reference and would be a welcome addition to the bookcase of every rabbi, cantor, and layperson.

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Missionaries in Hawai'i

The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883

Clifford Putney

University of Massachusetts Press, 2010

Ever since Protestant missionaries from the United States first reached Hawai'i in 1820, they have inspired conflicting passions. In evangelical circles, the missionaries are praised for Christianizing Hawai'i, transforming Hawaiian into a written language, and inoculating the islanders against smallpox. But this celebratory assessment is rejected by modern-day Hawaiian nationalists, who excoriate the missionaries as advance agents of U.S. imperialism.

In this biography of pioneer missionaries Peter and Fanny Gulick, Clifford Putney offers a balanced view of their contributions. He says the nationalists are right to credit the missionaries with drawing Hawai'i into America's political orbit, but argues that the missionary enterprise helped in some ways to preserve key elements of Hawaiian culture.

Based primarily on letters, journals, and other archival materials, Putney's book provides readers with a detailed portrait of the lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick. Inspired by America's Second Great Awakening to spread the Gospel overseas, the Gulicks voyaged to Hawai'i in 1828 and lived there for the next forty-six years, actively proselytizing and working to change the islands. On Kaua'i, they helped to ensure the success of Hawai'i's first sugar plantation and acquainted Hawaiians with inventions such as the wagon. On Moloka'i (later the site of a leper colony) the couple struggled merely to survive. And on O'ahu, they took up ranching and helped to found Punahou School, the alma mater of President Barack Obama.

While laboring in Hawai'i, the Gulicks interacted with kings, queens, and other historically important figures, and Putney chronicles those relationships. He also explores issues of race and gender, and sheds new light on the democratization of government, the spread of capitalism, and the privatization of land. From these last two developments, a number of missionaries grew immensely rich, but the Gulicks did not, and neither did their descendants. A group that includes influential missionaries, educators, and physical fitness experts, the descendants of Peter and Fanny have had numerous books written about them, but Putney is the first to write extensively about the progenitors of the Gulick clan.

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Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Winter Jade Werner

The Ohio State University Press, 2020

Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature explores the notion that missionaries, often perceived as only evangelically motivated in the British imperial project, were also spurred on by cosmopolitan ideals. Winter Jade Werner makes this surprising connection in order to write against standard understandings of missionary work as well as typical understandings of cosmopolitanism as a deeply secular project.
Missionary Cosmopolitanism identifies the nineteenth-century novel as thematically and formally attuned to the tension between missionaries’ cosmopolitan values and the moral impoverishment of their imperialist and expansionist practices. Werner’s chapters interact with canonical works such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, along with lesser-known works by Robert Southey and Sydney Owenson. Ultimately, Missionary Cosmopolitanism demonstrates that nineteenth-century literature both illustrated and helped define missionary discourses regarding cosmopolitan ideas, showing how global evangelicalism continues to tap into the “new cosmopolitanisms” of today.

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Missionary Scientists

Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810

Andres I. Prieto

Vanderbilt University Press, 2011

Missionary Scientists explores the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries in colonial Spanish America, revealing a little-known aspect of religions role in the scholarship of the early Spanish Empire. Grounded in an examination of the writings and individuals authors who were active in South American naturalist studies, this study outlines new paths of research often neglected by current scholarship.

What becomes clear throughout Missionary Scientists is that early missionaries were adept in adapting to local practices, in order to both understand the scientific foundations of these techniques and ingratiate themselves to the native communities.

Spanning the disciplines of history, religion, and Latin American studies, Missionary Scientists reshapes our understanding of the importance of the Jesuit missions in establishing early scientific traditions in the New World.

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Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions

Exploring Emotions in Biblical Literature

F. Scott Spencer

SBL Press, 2017

A ground-breaking collection exploring the rich array of emotions in biblical literature

An international team of Hebrew Bible and New Testament scholars offers incisive case studies of passions displayed by divine and human figures in the biblical texts ranging from joy, happiness, and trust to grief, hate, and disgust. Essays address how biblical characters' feelings affect their relationship with God, one another, and the world and how these feelings mix together, for good or ill, for flourishing or vexation. Deeply engaged with both ancient and modern contexts, including the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of emotion in the humanities and sciences, these essays break down the artificial divide between reason and passion, cognition and emotion, thought and feeling in biblical study.

Features

Case studies drawn from multiple genres across the Bible: narrative, prophets, poetry, wisdom, Gospels, and letters
Helpful select bibliographies of interdisciplinary resources at the end of each essay
Critical balance between theory and practice and between method and close textual analysis
Distinctive ancient Hebrew and Greek uses of emotional terms and concepts compared with each other and with evolving understandings in Western culture

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Mixtec Evangelicals

Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

Mary I. O'Connor

University Press of Colorado, 2016

Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor and return having converted from their rural Catholic roots to Evangelical Protestant religions.

O’Connor identifies globalization as the root cause of this process. She demonstrates the ways that neoliberal policies have forced Mixtecs to migrate and how migration provides the contexts for conversion. Converts challenge the set of customs governing their Mixtec villages by refusing to participate in the Catholic ceremonies and social gatherings that are at the center of traditional village life. The home communities have responded in a number of ways—ranging from expulsion of converts to partial acceptance and adjustments within the village—depending on the circumstances of conversion and number of converts returning.

Presenting data and case studies resulting from O’Connor’s ethnographic field research in Oaxaca and various migrant settlements in Mexico and the United States, Mixtec Evangelicals explores this phenomenon of globalization and observes how ancient communities are changed by their own emissaries to the outside world. Students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, and religion will find much in this book to inform their understanding of globalization, modernity, indigeneity, and religious change.

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