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The Politics of Sacred Space
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Pages: 202
Authors: Michael Dumper
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

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Dumper explores how religious and political interests compete for control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and how this competition affects the Middle East conflic
Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Marshall J. Breger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-19 - Publisher: Routledge

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Religion and religious nationalism have long played a central role in many ethnic and national conflicts, and the importance of religion to national identity me
American Sacred Space
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: David Chidester
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-11-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation—and the conflict behind the creation—of sacred space in America. The essays in this volum
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Victoria Smolkin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-29 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools-
The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Amy Russell
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores how public space in Republican Rome was an unstable category marked, experienced, and defined by multiple actors and audiences.