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Women of the Wall - Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites (Hardcover)
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Women of the Wall - Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites (Hardcover)
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In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah
scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the
plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site.
Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization, the
Women of the Wall, one of whom had smuggled the scroll into the
plaza, Sasha became the first woman to read from the Torah at the
site. For more than twenty five years, the Women of the Wall have
been waging a campaign to gain the Israeli government's permission
to pray at the Western Wall. Despite widespread media coverage,
this is the first comprehensive study of their struggle. Yuval
Jobani and Nahshon Perez offer an in-depth analysis of the Women of
the Wall's attempts to modify Jewish-orthodox mainstream religious
practice from within and invest it with a new, egalitarian content.
They present a comprehensive survey of the numerous legal rulings
about the case and consider the broader political and social
significance of the Women of the Wall's activism. In this way,
Jobani and Perez are able 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
public spaces.
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