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The quest for a comprehensive theoretical compass with which to navigate religion in a wide variety of differing public spaces worldwide has recently gained greater urgency and wider scholarly attention. This is a problem that has preoccupied us for several years now. We began our joint inquiry into the issue, in general, and the complexities it evokes in the Israeli context, in particular, with a paper, published in the Journal of Political Ideologies, on the Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews’ request to win an exemption from mandatory military conscription. While working on this article, we became fascinated with the challenges the Women of the Wall pose to the ultra-Orthodox hold on Judaism’s holiest prayer site, the Western Wall, and the difficulties encountered by democratic states asked to respond to requests from minorities—in this case, religious women—that conflict with (what is often) a state-endorsed mainstream interpretation of a given tradition. Our first foray into the case of the Women of the Wall, an article published in the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion in 2014 made it clear to us that this complex and sensitive case touches on a wide variety of fundamental, often nuanced issues and problems, such as the need to conceptualize “contested sacred sites” and the normative status of “tradition.” These reflections ultimately led us to the present book-length study.
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