The politics of sacred places : a view from Israel-Palestine / Nimrod Luz.
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 c...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2023.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury studies in religion, space and place.
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Introduction -- Ethnocratizing the Holy Land: contextualizing sacred places in Israel/Palestine -- Embodying the sacred and the body in sacred places -- Sacred sites in rural communities -- Sacred sites and the right to the city -- ReligioCity and decolonizing Acre through the sacred -- Glocalizing the sacred: the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount as the hypocenter of Israel/Palestine -- Epilogue. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350295735 1350295736 9781350295742 1350295744 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350295759 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Nimrod Luz is Head of the Research Authority at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel. |