Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites

Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites

Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution

In: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 22

Edited by: Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey

Columbia University Press | 2014

https://doi.org/10.7312/bark16994

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This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the logic that underlies centuries of "sharing," exploring when and why sharing gets interrupted—or not—by conflict, and the policy consequences.

Explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria

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Elazar Barkan is professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, director of the School of International and Public Affairs' Human Rights Concentration, and director of Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He is the coauthor of No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation and author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices.

Karen Barkey is Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University:
Coming from a range of disciplines, the essays in Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites are compelling for specialists in interreligious relations, conflict resolution and peace studies, and religious ethnography. They are also engaging and accessible to a general audience concerned with the related issues of pluralism, coexistence, conflict, and tolerance. Understanding the complexity of shared sites is essential to grasping the ways multiple religions jointly inhabit this plural world. A valuable and timely volume in a field critical to the present moment in history.

Charles Stewart, University College London:
Sacred sites are ideally intimate possessions, inviolable and holy. Sharing them with other communities is like splitting an atom. This timely collection allows readers to examine the choreographies of theological politics and political theologies scripted to contain potential eruptions of violence, and these highly readable case studies will fuel discussions of the post-Ottoman era for many years to come.

Maria Couroucli, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative:
A most welcome addition to the growing literature on sharing sacred spaces in the eastern Mediterranean, with special reference to practices of coexistence between Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman traditions. This collection goes beyond the dilemma of 'peaceful coexistence and syncretic practices' versus 'antagonism and conflict.' Contributions focus on interreligious relations during the transition from empire to nation and on present-day practices from Algeria to Turkey and from Bosnia to Cyprus and Israel/Palestine. They emphasize the role of political and religious actors in transforming antagonism into peaceful coexistence.

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Introduction Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
1. Religious Pluralism, Shared Sacred Sites, and the Ottoman Empire Karen Barkey Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	33
Comparisons: Cyprus/ Bosnia/Anatolia /Algiers
2. Three Ways of Sharing the Sacred Mete Hatay Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	69
3. Religious Antagonism and Shared Sanctuaries in Algeria Dionigi Albera Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	97
4. Contested Choreographies of Sacred Spaces in Muslim Bosnia David Henig Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	130
Palestine/Israel
5. At the Boundaries of the Sacred Wendy Pullan Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	163
6. The Politics of Ownership Glenn Bowman Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	199
7. Choreographing Upheaval Elazar Barkan Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	235
8. The Impact of Conflicts over Holy Sites on City Images and Landscapes Rassem Khamaisi Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	270
Museums
9. Tolerance versus Holiness Yitzhak Reiter Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	299
10. Secularizing the Unsecularizable Rabia Harmanşah, Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir and Robert M. Hayden Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	336
Bibliography Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	369
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	395
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	401

Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites

Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution

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