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Contested Holy Cities: The Urban Dimension of Religious Conflicts

Contested Holy Cities: The Urban Dimension of Religious Conflicts

Dumper, Michael

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Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

General Political Science

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ISBN10: 0367728591
ISBN13: 9780367728595
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 222
Language: English

Examining contestation and conflict management within holy cities, this book provides both an overview and a range of options available to those concerned with this increasingly urgent phenomenon.



In cities in India, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, we can see examples where religion plays a dominant role in urban development and thus provides a platform for conflict. Powerful religious hierarchies, the generation of often unregulated revenues from donations and endowments, the presence of holy sites and the enactment of ritualistic activities in public spaces combine to create forms of conflicts which are, arguably, more intense and more intractable than other forms of conflicts in cities. The book develops a working definition of the urban dimension of religious conflicts so that the kinds of conflicts exhibited can be contextualised and studied in a more targeted manner. It draws together a series of case studies focusing on specific cities, the kinds of religious conflicts occurring in them and the international structures and mechanisms that have emerged to address such conflicts.

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