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Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries

By Dionigi Albera , Maria Couroucli

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0253356334, 9780253356338
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5512618 bytes)
Series
New Anthropologies of Europe
Pages
290\291
Time added
2017-04-04 02:33:16
Middle East;Bahrain;Egypt;Iran;Iraq;Israel & Pales

Description

While devotional practices are usually viewed as mechanisms for reinforcing religious boundaries, in the multicultural, multiconfessional world of the Eastern Mediterranean, shared shrines sustain intercommunal and interreligious 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.

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