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understand the term; they are often less concrete. Nevertheless, the ways in which
unaffiliated Jews create and interpret their sense of being Jewish are themselves inno-
vative Jewish practices – lived religion – outside of institutional structures. By includ-
ing these rituals within our study of American Jewish practice, we succeed in broad-
ening sociological conceptions of religious rituals to include those practices of lived
religion.