Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites : : Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution /

Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites : : Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution / / ed. by Karen Barkey, Elazar Barkan.

This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Albera, Dionigi,
Barkan, Elazar,
Barkey, Karen,
Bowman, Glenn,
Harmanşah, Rabia,
Hatay, Mete,
Hayden, Robert M.,
Henig, David,
Khamaisi, Rassem,
Pullan, Wendy,
Reiter, Yitzhak,
Tanyeri-Erdemir, Tuğba,
HerausgeberIn:
Barkan, Elazar,
Barkey, Karen,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 4 maps and 10 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Religious Pluralism, Shared Sacred Sites, and the Ottoman Empire
  • Comparisons: Cyprus/ Bosnia/Anatolia /Algiers
  • 2. Three Ways of Sharing the Sacred
  • 3. Religious Antagonism and Shared Sanctuaries in Algeria
  • 4. Contested Choreographies of Sacred Spaces in Muslim Bosnia
  • Palestine/Israel
  • 5. At the Boundaries of the Sacred
  • 6. The Politics of Ownership
  • 7. Choreographing Upheaval
  • 8. The Impact of Conflicts over Holy Sites on City Images and Landscapes
  • Museums
  • 9. Tolerance versus Holiness
  • 10. Secularizing the Unsecularizable
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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