| Description: This book focuses "on the 'ba'al teshuvah' (return to traditional
Judaism) movement in Israel and America. . . . {Danzger} assesses the
motivation, background, experiences, and religious expectations of
returnees to Judaism. .. . Beginning with a discussion on origins of
return (home, synagogue, yeshiva), he {attempts to} trace the
conflict between returnees' worldly values and religious authority
and the efforts, on the one hand, to make these concerns part of the
traditionalist world (such as saving a gentile on the Sabbath) and,on
the other, to apply strict Orthodox mores (such as non equality in
public prayer) to returnees' own circumstances. Also he {seeks to}
portray parallelsand differences between Jewish and Christian
revivalism." (Choice) Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
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