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" Adamah (Earth): "
Matthew Immergut
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AL
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1085860
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LA129489
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10.1163/156853508X276815
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English
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Matthew Immergut
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Adamah (Earth): [Article] : Searching for and Constructing a Jewish Relationship to Nature\ Matthew Immergut
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Leiden: Brill
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Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
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2008
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12/1
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1–24
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| Abstract
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"This article examines the Adamah (Earth) Fellowship, a multi-denominational Jewish, sustainable and organic farming program in Northwestern Connecticut. Using a micro-sociological framework, I present an analysis of how this group of young Jews is attempting to use religious language, text and ritual to create a meaningful relationship to nature. In this effort, individuals are self-reflective, picking, choosing and trying on various religious resources within but also outside of their tradition's boundaries. In conclusion, I discuss the struggle participants have in feeling "held" by the religious world they are constructing. This article contributes to understanding the growing number of land-based religious projects seeking to recover or renew a religiously inspired relationship to the earth. This article examines the Adamah (Earth) Fellowship, a multi-denominational Jewish, sustainable and organic farming program in Northwestern Connecticut. Using a micro-sociological framework, I present an analysis of how this group of young Jews is attempting to use religious language, text and ritual to create a meaningful relationship to nature. In this effort, individuals are self-reflective, picking, choosing and trying on various religious resources within but also outside of their tradition's boundaries. In conclusion, I discuss the struggle participants have in feeling "held" by the religious world they are constructing. This article contributes to understanding the growing number of land-based religious projects seeking to recover or renew a religiously inspired relationship to the earth."
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AGRICULTURE
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JUDAISM
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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF NATURE
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SPIRITUALITY
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10.1163/156853508X276815
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