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Explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria
List of contents
Introduction, by Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey1. Religious Pluralism, Shared Sacred Sites, and the Ottoman Empire, by Karen BarkeyComparisons: Cyprus/Bosnia/Anatolia/Algiers2. Three Ways of Sharing the Sacred: Choreographies of Coexistence in Cyprus, by Mete Hatay3. Religious Antagonism and Shared Sanctuaries in Algeria, by Dionigi Albera4. Contested Choreographies of Sacred Spaces in Muslim Bosnia, by David HenigPalestine/Israel5. At the Boundaries of the Sacred: The Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem's al-Wad Street, by Wendy Pullan6. The Politics of Ownership: State, Governance, and the Status Quo in the Church of the Anastasis (Holy Sepulchre), by Glenn Bowman7. Choreographing Upheaval: The Politics of Sacred Sites in the West Bank, by Elazar Barkan8. The Impact of Conflicts Over Holy Sites on City Images and Landscapes: The Case of Nazareth, by Rassem KhamaisiMuseums9. Tolerance Versus Holiness: The Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance and the Mamilla Muslim Cemetery, by Yitzhak Reiter10. Secularizing the Unsecularizable: A Comparative Study of the Hac? Bekta? and Mevlana Museums in Turkey, by Rabia Harman?ah, Tu?ba Tanyeri-Erdemir, and Robert M. HaydenBibliographyContributorsIndex
About the author
Elazar Barkan is professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, director of School of International and Public Affair's Human Rights Concentration, and director of Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He is the coauthor of No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation and author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. Karen Barkey is professor of sociology and history at Columbia University and director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Her latest work, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, was awarded the Barrington Moore Award in the Comparative Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the J. Greenstone Award in the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association.
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Explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria
