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.
These essays map the choreographies of shared sacred spaces
within the framework of state-society relations, juxtaposing a
site's political and religious features and exploring whether
sharing or contestation is primarily religious or politically
motivated. While religion and politics are intertwined phenomena,
the contributors to this volume understand the category of
"religion" and the "political" as devices meant to distinguish
between the theological and confessional aspects of religion and
the political goals of groups. Their comparative approach better
represents the transition in some cases of sites into places of
hatred and violence while in other instances they remain
noncontroversial. The essays clearly delineate the religious and
political factors that contribute to the context and causality of
conflict at these sites and draw on history and anthropology to
shed light on the often rapid switch from relative tolerance to
distress to peace and calm.
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