Friday, March 18, 2005

politics of prayer

This issue of whether a woman can lead a prayer is interesting. It taps into a number of other questions. For example, what is the political content of the prayer anyway? What does leading a prayer mean? What does following the leader (imam) mean?

More generally there is this whole question of how traditional religious understandings interact with modern sensibilities. How spirituality and piety interact with political concerns.

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