TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luz, Nimrod
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Politics of Sacred Places: A View from Israel-Palestine
T3  - Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
ET  - 1st ed
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
CY  - London
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Israel
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Sacred space
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Religion & politics
KW  - Religion: general
AB  - 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
SN  - 9781350295759
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350295759?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350295759
DO  - 10.5040/9781350295759?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
DO  - 10.5040/9781350295759
LA  - English
N1  - Nimrod Luz
ID  - 1854622315
ER  -