Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Social Compass; International Review of Sociology of Religion
Angaben zur Quelle:
69,1 (2022) 3-21
Keywords:
Hospitality Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Hospitality
;
Judaism Relations
;
Islam
;
Jewish-Arab relations
;
Judaism Customs and practices
;
Reform Judaism
Abstract:
This ethnography analyzes three Israeli Reform Jewish rituals as manifestations of interreligious hospitality. The Daniel Reform congregation invites Muslim residents of Jaffa to participate in rituals incorporating Arabic and Muslim clergy and prayers. The egalitarian and pluralistic Jewish symbols and narratives promote neighborly relationships. Nevertheless, some participants’ responses reaffirm popular suspicions and prejudices, which the ceremony seeks to overcome. Interreligious hospitality here is not so much an act of theological reconciliation, but a political act also directed toward other actors – like the Israeli right-wing and Israeli society, which grant the Orthodox a monopoly on Judaism. While the shared ritual practice offers a dialogical model that engages broader publics through doing, the analytic frame of hospitality sensitizes us to the importance of space and language in the power relationships of hosts and guests. It helps explain the challenges to the messages of coexistence, which the rituals are designed to confirm.
DOI:
10.1177/00377686211046640
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