%0 Book
%T Politics of Sacred Places: A View from Israel-Palestine
%A Luz, Nimrod
%S Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
%D 2023
%7 1st ed
%I Bloomsbury Academic
%C London
%@ 9781350295759
%G English
%F 1854622315
%O Nimrod Luz
%X 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
%K Arab-Israeli conflict
%K Religious aspects
%K Religion and politics
%K Israel
%K Palestine
%K Sacred space
%K Christianity
%K Religion & politics
%K Religion: general
%9 Text
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