Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Friedmann, Jonathan L., 1980-

Title Social functions of synagogue song : a Durkheimian approach / Jonathan L. Friedmann
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 187 pages)
Contents Durkheim and religion -- Discipline -- Cohesion -- Revitalization -- Euphoria
Summary Social Functions of Synagogue Song: A Durkheimian Approach by Jonathan L. Friedmann paints a detailed picture of the important role sacred music plays in Jewish religious communities. Drawing upon the work of Émile Durkeim, the book examines how synagogue songs serve disciplinary, cohesive, revitalizing, and euphoric functions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
SUBJECT Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 fast
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. gnd (DE-601)060136928
Subject Synagogue music -- History and criticism.
Synagogue music -- Social aspects
MUSIC -- Religious -- Jewish.
Synagogue music
Synagoge.
Geistliche Musik.
Soziologie.
Judentum.
Ritual.
Gottesdienst.
Gemeindesoziologie.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012008358
ISBN 0739168320
9780739168325
1280659653
9781280659652
9786613636584
6613636584