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Author:   Dionigi Albera ,  Maria Couroucli
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9780253356338

ISBN 10:   0253356334
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   20 February 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Maria Couroucli 1. Identification and Identity Formation around Shared Shrines in West Bank Palestine and Western Macedonia / Glenn Bowman; 2. The Vakef: Sharing Religious Space in Albania / Gilles de Rapper; 3. Kom iluk and Taking Care of the Neighbour's Shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Bojan Baskar; 4. The Mount of the Cross: Sharing and Contesting Barriers on a Balkan Pilgrimage Site / Galia Valtchinova; 5. Muslim Devotional Practices in Christian Shrines: the Case of Istanbul / Dionigi Albera and Benoit Fliche; 6. Saint George the Anatolian: Master of Frontiers / Maria Couroucli; 7. A Jewish-Muslim Shrine in North Morocco: Echoes of an Ambiguous Past / Henk Driessen; 8. What Do Egypt's Copts and Muslims Share? The Issue of Shrines / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; 9. Apparitions of the Virgin in Egypt: Improving Relations between Copts and Muslims? / Sandrine Keriakos; 10. Sharing the Baraka of Saints: Pluridenominational Visits to the Christian Monasteries in Syria / Anna Poujeau Conclusion: Crossing the Frontiers between the Monotheistic Religions, an Anthropological Approach / Dionigi Albera Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index

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<p> Promises to ignite new discussions and understandings of Islam in relation to the other great religious traditions of the West.... Allows the opening of larger questions and the beginning of a quest to regain a world that we wish we still had. --Charles Stewart, University College London--Charles Stewart, University College London

<p> Promises to ignite new discussions and understandings of Islam inrelation to the other great religious traditions of the West.... Allows the openingof larger questions and the beginning of a quest to regain a world that we wish westill had. -- Charles Stewart, University College London--Charles Stewart, University College London

[T]his volume is an extremely timely and welcome arrival, addressing as it does a yawning gap in the literature.... In gathering an array of methodological perspectives and a range of different experiences, it brings to light a diversity of both commonalities and points of divergence in shared practices and spaces.... Sharing Sacred Spaces will spark debate, perhaps controversy, and hopefully further research into points of contact between the monotheistic religions, and others. --Levantine Review Overall, the chapters take a diversity of approaches, and at the same time portray the diversity and also complexity involved in the sharing of sacred spaces in this region. --Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Promises to ignite new discussions and understandings of Islam in relation to the other great religious traditions of the West.... Allows the opening of larger questions and the beginning of a quest to regain a world that we wish we still had. --Charles Stewart, University College London

Promises to ignite new discussions and understandings of Islam in relation to the other great religious traditions of the West.... Allows the opening of larger questions and the beginning of a quest to regain a world that we wish we still had.--Charles Stewart, University College London

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Dionigi Albera is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Director of the Institut d'Ethnologie Méditerranéenne et Comparative. Maria Couroucli is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative.

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