"Christian" Skating Time

[Paul Finkelman]

Mark:  An Israeli folk dance is the folk dance of a national culture.  
It is not a religious dance.  That is the whole point!

Mark Graber wrote:

>May I suggest that this thread might benefit from Gary Jacobsohn's
>wonderful analysis of Hindutva in his THE WHEEL OF THE LAW: INDIA'S
>SECULARISM IN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT.  As Professor
>Jacobsohn notes, Hindutva can be understood both as a culture and a
>religion, there not being a very sharp difference.  My sense is the same
>is true for Christianity (certainly true for Judaism--witness Israeli
>folk dance).  If this is the case, then both the claims that this is
>simply secular or purely religious need to be modified.  The more
>crucial issue is how to First Amendment issues play out when the
>religious issues canno tbe disentangled from secular issues.
>
>Mark A. Graber
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