The Politics of Sacred Places : A View from Israel-Palestine Hardback
by Nimrod Luz
Part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place series
Hardback
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The Politics of Sacred Places is a study of the socio-political dimensions of sacred sites in Israel–Palestine, drawing on over 20 years of in-depth ethnographic research which introduces cutting-edge theories on secularization, struggles for recognition, and diversity issues. This book focuses on contemporary sacred sites and their socio-political meanings for minorities within a hegemonic and a secularizing state-system.
It argues that sacred places provide a space that is less scrutinized by the state and where alternative visions of the socio-political may be produced. A plethora of sites and case studies are examined, including the rural shrine of Maqam abu al-Hijja in the lower Galilee, the Mosque of Hassan Bek in the heart of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and the most disputed sacred place in the region, the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem.
These sites are explored through mostly a phenomenological lens and in various contexts, from the individual body to the global. This book offers a critical-analytical study of the socio-political aspects of sacred sites in contemporary societies within the broader understanding of scale and the spatial turn in the study of religion.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:05/10/2023
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- ISBN:9781350295728
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:05/10/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350295728