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Sharing the Sacra: The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places
Edited by Glenn Bowman
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“Shared†sites, where members of distinct, or factionally opposed, religious communities interact—or fail to interact—is the focus of this volume. Chapters based on fieldwork from such diverse sites as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, and Vietnam demonstrate how sharing and tolerance are both more complex and multifaceted than they are often recognized to be. By including both historical processes (the development of Chinese funerals in late imperial Beijing or the refashioning of memorial commemoration in the wake of the Vietnam war) and particular events (the visit of Pope John Paul II to shared shrines in Sri Lanka or the Al-Qaeda bombing of an ancient Jewish synagogue on the Island of Djerba in Tunisia), the volume demonstrates the importance of understanding the wider contexts within which social interactions take place and shows that tolerance and intercommunalism are simultaneously possible and perpetually under threat.
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Publisher | Berghahn Books
Published date | 1 Jul 2012
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 196
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 435g
ISBN | 978-0-8574-5486-7
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BISAC | social science / anthropology / cultural
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