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

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

Paperback

Series: New Anthropologies of Europe

Comparative ReligionAnthropologyGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0253223172
ISBN13: 9780253223173
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Feb 20 2012
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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