- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Ethnocratizing the Holy Land: Contextualizing Sacred Places in Israel/Palestine
- 2 Embodying the Sacred and the Body in Sacred Places
- 3 Sacred Sites in Rural Communities
- 4 Sacred Sites and the Right to the City
- 5 ReligioCity and Decolonizing Acre through the Sacred
- 6 Glocalizing the Sacred: The Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount as the Hypocenter of Israel/Palestine
- 7 Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Imprint