Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites
- ISBN-10
- 0190280441
- ISBN-13
- 9780190280444
- Series
- Women of the Wall
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Yuval Jobani, Nahshon Perez
Description
For more than twenty five years, the Women of the Western Wall (WoW) have been waging a campaign to gain the Israeli government's permission to pray at Judaism's holiest prayer site, the Western Wall. The WoW's determined activism has gained widespread media coverage, but this is the firstcomprehensive academic study of their struggle. Yuval Jobani and Nahshon Perez explore various dimensions of the group's struggles, including: an analysis of the women's attempts to modify Jewish-orthodox mainstream religious practice from within and invest it with a new, egalitarian content; acomprehensive survey of the numerous legal rulings about the case; and considerations of the broader political and social significance of the WoW's struggle.This analysis enables the authors to address broader issues of religion-state relations: How should governments manage religious plurality within their borders? How should governments respond to the requests of minorities that conflict with ostensibly mainstream interpretations of a given tradition?How should governments manage disputed sacred sites and spaces located in the public sphere? Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites offers a critical new look at theories of religion-state relations and a fresh examination of religious conflicts over sacred sites and publicspaces.
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- 2017-06-01
- 248 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
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- 2013-07-02
- 510 pages
- Paperback
- Turner Publishing Company
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- 2003
- 429 pages
- Paperback
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- 2002-10-01
- 496 pages
- Paperback
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