Sharing the ‹i›Sacra‹/i› : : The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places / / ed. by Glenn Bowman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Albera, Dionigi,; Bastin, Rohan,; Bigelow, Anna,; Boum, Aomar,; Bowman, Glenn,; Carpenter-Latiri, Dora,; Chau, Adam Yuet,; Couroucli, Maria,; Kwon, Heonik,; Tuladhar-Douglas, Will,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowman, Glenn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

“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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• List of Figures and Tables
• Introduction: Sharing the Sacra
• 1. Combining Practices and Beliefs: Muslim Pilgrims at Marian Shrines
• 2. Everybody’s Baba: Making Space for the Other
• 3. Chthonian Spirits and Shared Shrines: Th e Dynamics of Place among Christians and Muslims in Anatolia
• 4. The Work of Mending: How Pharping People Manage an Exclusivist Response to the Procession of Vajrayoginī
• 5. Efficacy, Not Confessionality: On Ritual Polytropy in China
• 6. Saints, Sites and Religious Accommodation in Sri Lanka
• 7. The Ghriba on the Island of Jerba or the Reinvention of a Shared Shrine as a Metonym for a Multicultural Tunisia
• 8. “Sacred Week”: Re-experiencing Jewish-Muslim Coexistence in Urban Moroccan Space
• 9. New Ancestral Shrines after the Cold War
• Notes on Contributors
• Index