Governing the sacred : political toleration in five contested sacred sites

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Governing the sacred : political toleration in five contested sacred sites

Title remainder

political toleration in five contested sacred sites

Statement of responsibility

Yuval Jobani and Nahshon Perez

Creator

• Jobani, Yuval

Contributor

• Perez, Nahshon, 1973-

Author

• Perez, Nahshon, 1973-

Subject

• Religion and state -- Case studies
• Sacred space -- Law and legislation -- Case studies
• Religion and politics -- Case studies

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

Contested sacred sites pose a difficult challenge in the field of toleration. Holy sites are often at the center of intense contestation between different groups regarding a wide variety of issues, including ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct, and many other aspects. As such, they are often the source of immense levels of violence, and intractable, long-standing conflicts. Governing the Sacred profiles five central contested sacred sites which exemplify the immense difficulties associated with such sites: Devils Tower National Monument (Wyoming, U.S.), Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi (Uttar-Pradesh, India), the Western Wall (Jerusalem), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), and the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif (Jerusalem). The study of these sites enables the construction of a critical typology of five corresponding models or ways of governing the sacred.--

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized