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This edited collection explores forms of multi-religious cohabitation as well as the spatial arrangements that underpin and shape them through sixteen chapters that range across disciplines, historical periods, and global geographies. Focusing on interactions between different religious groups and traditions, the authors conceptualize three types of spatial arrangements and explore how they operate ad geographies of encounter; i.e., multi-religious places, multi-religious cities, and multi-religious landscapes. With perspectives from anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and geographers, the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which geographies of interreligious encounters and forms of multi-religious cohabitation have changed throughout history due to their embeddedness id different frameworks of political organization, shifting religious ideologies, and changing forms of human mobility.
List of contents
1. Geographies of Encounter: The Making and Unmaking of Multi-Religious Spaces.- Part I: Multi-Religious Cities.- 2. Unholy Religious Encounters and the Development of Jerusalem's Urban Landscape: Between Particularism and Exceptionalism.- 3. Ancient Rome: The Shrinking and Growth of Religious Diversity in a Cosmopolitan City.- 4. A Pagan Temple, a Martyr Shrine, and a Synagogue in Daphne: Sharing Religious Sites in Fourth Century Antioch.- 5. Constantinople as a (Unwilling) Multireligious Space (330-1453).- 6. Religious Diversity and the Long Nineteenth Century: Exploring Port Cities.- Part II: Multi-Religious Places.- 7. Cohabiting in an Imaginary Space: Ancient Jewish and Christian Representations of the Temple and the Tabernacle.- 8. Touristification as a Strategy for Peaceful Coexistence: The Case Study of the Sveti Naum Monastery (Macedonia).- 9. The Interreligious Complex at Vulcana-Ba i in Romania: A Multi-Religious Place Between Idealism and Pragmatism.- 10. The "Casa delle religioni" of Turin: A Multi-Level Project Between Religious and Secular.- 11. Multi-Religious Places by Design: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin's House of One.- Part III: Multi-Religious Landscapes.- 12. The Veneration of St. Yared: A Multireligious Landscape Shared by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians and the Betä sra el (Ethiopian Jews).- 13. A Shared Holy Landscape: The Reactualization of Egypt's Sacred History and Geography in Medieval Islamic Thought.- 14: Spatial Arrangements for Conviviality: The Garden of Faiths as a Multi-Religious Landscape in Germany.
About the author
Marian Burchardt is Professor of Sociology at Leipzig University, Germany. His research explores how power, diversity and subjectivity play out in public space. His the author of
Faith in the Time of AIDS (2015) and co-editor of
Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes (2019).
Maria Chiara Giorda is Professor of History of Religions at University of Roma Tre, Italy. Her research interests are in religious education, geography of religions, history of monasticism, and religious diversity in public spaces. She is co-editor of the book
Manuale di Scienze della Religione, 2019.
