Sharing sacred spaces in the Mediterranean : Christians, Muslims, and Jews at shrines and sanctuaries
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Sharing sacred spaces in the Mediterranean : Christians, Muslims, and Jews at shrines and sanctuaries
（New anthropologies of Europe / editors, Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, and Michael Herzfeld）
Indiana University Press, c2012
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Religions traversées : lieux saints partagés entre chrétiens, musulmans et juifs en Méditerranée
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Original French ed. published in 2009 by Actes sud
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index
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Description
While devotional practices are usually viewed as mechanisms for reinforcing religious boundaries, in the multicultural, multi-confessional world of the Eastern Mediterranean, shared shrines sustain inter-communal and inter-religious contact among groups. Heterodox, marginal, and largely ignored by central authorities, these practices persist despite aggressive, homogenizing nationalist movements. This volume challenges much of the received wisdom concerning the three major monotheistic religions and the "clash of civilizations." Contributors examine intertwined religious traditions along the shores of the Near East from North Africa to the Balkans.
Table of Contents
- Introduction by Maria Couroucli 1. Identification and Identity Formation around Shared Shrines in West Bank Palestine and Western Macedonia / Glenn Bowman
- 2. The Vakef: Sharing Religious Space in Albania / Gilles de Rapper
- 3. Kom iluk and Taking Care of the Neighbour's Shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Bojan Baskar
- 4. The Mount of the Cross: Sharing and Contesting Barriers on a Balkan Pilgrimage Site / Galia Valtchinova
- 5. Muslim Devotional Practices in Christian Shrines: the Case of Istanbul / Dionigi Albera and Benoit Fliche
- 6. Saint George the Anatolian: Master of Frontiers / Maria Couroucli
- 7. A Jewish-Muslim Shrine in North Morocco: Echoes of an Ambiguous Past / Henk Driessen
- 8. What Do Egypt's Copts and Muslims Share? The Issue of Shrines / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
- 9. Apparitions of the Virgin in Egypt: Improving Relations between Copts and Muslims? / Sandrine Keriakos
- 10. Sharing the Baraka of Saints: Pluridenominational Visits to the Christian Monasteries in Syria / Anna Poujeau Conclusion: Crossing the Frontiers between the Monotheistic Religions, an Anthropological Approach / Dionigi Albera Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
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