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The Politics of Sacred Places: A View from Israel-Palestine - Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place Luz, Nimrod (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel)
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The Politics of Sacred Places: A View from Israel-Palestine - Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
Luz, Nimrod (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel)
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.
240 pages, 10 bw illus
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 29, 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350295766 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 232 × 16 mm · 380 g |
| Language | English |
