Choreographies of shared sacred sites : religion and conflict resolution / edited by Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders manoeuvre 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.

Introduction / Karen Barkey and Elazar Barkan -- Religious pluralism, shared sacred sites, and the Ottoman Empire / Karen Barkey -- Ways of sharing the sacred : choreographies of coexistence in Cyprus / Mete Hatay -- Religious antagonism and shared sanctuaries in Algeria / Dionigi Albera -- Contested choreographies of sacred spaces in Muslim Bosnia / David Henig -- At the boundaries of the sacred : the reinvention of everyday life in Jerusalem's Al-Wad Street / Wendy Pullan -- The politics of ownership : state, governance and the status quo in the Holy Sepulchre / Glenn Bowman -- Choreographing upheaval : politics of scared sites in the West Bank / Elazar Barkan -- The impact of conflicts over holy sites on city images and landscapes : the case of Nazareth / Rassem Khamaisi -- Tolerance versus holiness : the Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance and the Mamilla Muslim Cemetery / Yitzhak Reiter -- Secularizing the unsecularizable : a comparative study of the hacı bektaș and Mevlana Museums in Turkey / Rabia Harmanșah, Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Robert M. Hayden.

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