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Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed space and wish to assert their own claims. Holy places thus create the potential for military, theological, or political clashes, not only between competing religious groups but also between religious groups and secular actors. In War on Sacred Grounds, Ron E. Hassner investigates the causes and properties of conflicts over sites that are both venerated and contested; he also proposes potential means for managing these disputes. Hassner illustrates a complex and poorly understood political dilemma with accounts of the failures to reach settlement at Temple Mount/Haram el-Sharif, leading to the clashes of 2000, and the competing claims of Hindus and Muslims at Ayodhya, which resulted in the destruction of the mosque there in 1992. He also addresses more successful compromises in Jerusalem in 1967 and Mecca in 1979. Sacred sites, he contends, are particularly prone to conflict because they provide valuable resources for both religious and political actors yet cannot be divided. The management of conflicts over sacred sites requires cooperation, Hassner suggests, between political leaders interested in promoting conflict resolution and religious leaders who can shape the meaning and value that sacred places hold for believers. Because a reconfiguration of sacred space requires a confluence of political will, religious authority, and a window of opportunity, it is relatively rare. Drawing on the study of religion and the study of politics in equal measure, Hassner's account offers insight into the often-violent dynamics that come into play at the places where religion and politics collide. -- Publisher description

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War on Sacred Grounds
2012, Cornell University Press
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War on Sacred Grounds
2010, Cornell University Press
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2009, Cornell University Press
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Table of Contents

Prologue : "a terrifying and fascinating mystery"
On sacred grounds
What is sacred space?
The indivisibility problem
Conflict over sacred places
Mismanaging conflicts over sacred places
The foundations and limits of religious authority
Successful conflict management : Jerusalem, 1967
Successful conflict management : Mecca, 1979
Lessons from conflicts over sacred places.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Ithaca

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Dewey Decimal Class
203/.50956
Library of Congress
BL580 .H375 2009, BL580.H375 2009

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xvii, 222 p.
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL23213375M
Internet Archive
waronsacredgroun00hass
ISBN 10
0801448069
ISBN 13
9780801448065
LCCN
2009016720
OCLC/WorldCat
319248392
Library Thing
9104669
Goodreads
7096303

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