This is an excellent book that adds to the anthropological and
historical literature on shared sacred sites. The majority of the
articles are very well written, present strong arguments that are
revealed with important research. The result is that the book adds
to and clarifies some of the debates about the sacred sites, how
they are shared as well as the role of the various actors involved
in the process. The cases are varied, rich and evocative.
Furthermore they are of contemporary importance and relevance. .
Karen Barkey, Columbia University
"Shared" sites, where members of distinct, or factionally
opposed, religious communities interact-or fail to interact-is the
focus of this volume. Chapters based on fieldwork from such diverse
sites as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia,
and Vietnam demonstrate how sharing and tolerance are both more
complex and multifaceted than they are often recognized to be. By
including both historical processes (the development of Chinese
funerals in late imperial Beijing or the refashioning of memorial
commemoration in the wake of the Vietnam war) and particular events
(the visit of Pope John Paul II to shared shrines in Sri Lanka or
the Al-Qaeda bombing of an ancient Jewish synagogue on the Island
of Djerba in Tunisia), the volume demonstrates the importance of
understanding the wider contexts within which social interactions
take place and shows that tolerance and intercommunalism are
simultaneously possible and perpetually under threat.
Glenn Bowman is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University
of Kent where he directs the postgraduate program in the
Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Identity. He has done
extensive field research on Jerusalem pilgrimages as well as on
intercommunal shrine practices in the Middle East and the Balkans.
In addition to this research on holy places he has worked in
Jerusalem and the West Bank on issues of nationalism and resistance
for nearly thirty years and has carried out fieldwork in the former
Yugoslavia on political mobilization and the politics of
contemporary art.
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