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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“An excellent compilation… [whose] strength lies less in overarching conclusions than in its fine-grained historical and ethnographic detail.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Using ethnographic and historical approaches, the chapters in this book show that [contrary to what is often believed] religious spaces are frequently peacefully shared by different religious groups…and reveal how inter-faith and inter-religious discursive formations are produced..by believers, state officials, and transnational institutions. Thus the volume provides important theoretical and methodological tools for an anthropology of inter-religious relations.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume’s] broad range of experience is combined with a wide range of religious and territorial contexts – a welcome corrective to the tendency towards focusing on particular religions and regions…Overall, this is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on shared sacred places. It shows what a carefully constructed edited volume can achieve in an academic world where researchers are under increasing pressure to only seek publication in journals with high global exposure. It also engages with a crucial issue in a world where religion has not retreated to the private sphere – the ability of pilgrims and others to co-exist at the same highly charged place\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cstrong\u003e · Anthropological Notebook\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis 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\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cstrong\u003e · Karen Barkey\u003c\/strong\u003e, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Figures and Tables\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sharing the \u003cem\u003eSacra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Glenn Bowman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eCombining practices and beliefs: Muslim pilgrims at Marian shrines\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDionigi Albera\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eEverybody's Baba: Making Space for the Other\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnna Bigelow \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eChthonian Spirits and Shared Shrines: The Dynamics of Place among Christians and Muslims in Anatolia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaria Couroucli\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The work of mending: How Pharping people manage an exclusivist response to the procession of Vajrayoginī\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWill Tuladhar-Douglas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eEfficacy, not Confessionality: On Ritual Polytropy in China\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdam Yuet Chau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Saints, Sites and Religious Accommodation in Sri Lanka\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRohan Bastin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Ghriba in the Island of Jerba (or Djerba)or the re-invention of a shared shrine as a metonym for a multicultural Tunisia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDora Carpenter-Latiri\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSacred Week\u003c\/em\u003e”: Re-Experiencing Jewish-Muslim Co-existence in Urban Moroccan Space\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAomar Boum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e New Ancestral Shrines after the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHeonik Kwon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tContributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042222637399,"sku":"9781782387442","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782387442.jpg?v=1750953510","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sharing-the-sacra-the-politics-and-pragmatics-of-intercommunal-relations-around-holy-places-9781782387442","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}