The Politics of Sacred Places
A View from Israel-Palestine
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 29 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350295766
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Contextualizing Sacred Places in Israel/Palestine: Ethnocracy, Colonization and Decolonization.
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. Decolonizing the City: Claiming Sacred Places in a Mixed Israeli City.
6. Glocalizing the Sacred: Moving to the National and Beyond.
Conclusions.
Bibliography
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