Abstract

Jews holding up purple paper crosses at a gun shop. Muslim, Christian, and Jewish clergy silently processing through the Philadelphia International Airport. A foot-washing unfolding on the plaza of the city’s largest utility company. How are people from different traditions being religious together in public? What happens when interfaith social change organizations engage in both traditional and newly constructed ritual practices at sites of violation and opportunity? What is the relationship between the practice of ritual and the production of meaning in the public square?