Introduction -- Defining oneself against the other: sources and parallels in late antiquity -- Assimilation and integration: the classical rabbinic sources -- From private piety to public prayer: reconciling practice with teaching -- Competitive traditions: early Palestinian practice -- Censorship in medieval and renaissance liturgy -- Women, slaves, boors and beasts -- Material and mystical worldviews -- Recasting boundaries and identity in nineteenth-century European prayer books -- Identity and the creation of community in modern American liturgy -- Conclusion.
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