The Politics of Sacred Places - A View from Israel-Palestine

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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• Authors: Nimrod Luz, Luz Nimrod
• Assisted by: John Eade (Editor), Katy Soar (Editor), Paul-François Tremlett (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2025
• EAN: 9781350295766
• ISBN: 978-1-350-29576-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, Israel, RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Religion: general, Christianity, Religion & politics, Judaism