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Prayer in Public: Muslim, Jewish, and Civic Leaders Respond

What stance should religious minorities take when it comes to the role of religion, ritual, and prayer in the American public square?
Imam Abdullah Antepli is a Fellow on Jewish-Muslim Relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute and Co-Director of the Muslim Leadership Initiative. He is on the faculty at both Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke Divinity School, where from 2008–2014 he served as the university’s first Muslim chaplain, one of only a handful of full-time Muslim chaplains at U.S. colleges and universities. He was recently recognized as one of the most influential Muslims

Tamara Mann Tweel

Rori Picker Neiss

What stance should religious minorities take when it comes to the role of religion, ritual, and prayer in the American public square? Is it preferable to accommodate religion, even if it hews to the majority Christian culture? Alternatively, is it better to advocate for a neutral and even godless public square?

The recent Supreme Court case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District has brought this question to the fore once again and has evoked a range of responses among religious minorities.

Hartman Fellows Tamara Mann Tweel, Program Director at The Teagle Foundation, Imam Abdullah Antepli, Associate Professor of the Practice of Interfaith Relations, Duke Divinity School and Sanford School of Public Policy, and Rori Picker Neiss, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St Louis, discuss the meaning, challenges, and opportunities of being a religious minority in 21st century America.

This series is part of Ideas for Today, curated courses by Hartman Institute scholars on the big Jewish ideas of this moment.

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