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Sharing sacred spaces in the Mediterranean : Christians, Muslims, and Jews at shrines and sanctuaries / edited by Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli.

Contributor(s): Albera, Dionigi | Couroucli, Maria
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: New anthropologies of Europe: Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: viii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780253356338 (cloth : alk. paper); 0253356334 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780253223173 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253223172 (pbk. : alk. paper)Uniform titles: Religions traversées. English. Subject(s): Religious pluralism -- Mediterranean Region | Mediterranean Region -- Religion | Christianity -- Mediterranean Region | Judaism -- Mediterranean Region | Islam -- Mediterranean RegionDDC classification: 201/.5091822 LOC classification: BL687 | .R46713 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Sharing sacred places : a Mediterranean tradition / Maria Couroucli -- Identification and identity formations around shared shrines in West Bank Palestine and western Macedonia / Glenn Bowman -- The Vakëf : sharing religious space in Albania / Gilles de Rapper -- Komšiluk and taking care of the neighbor's shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Bojan Baskar -- The mount of the cross : sharing and contesting barriers on a Balkan pilgrimage site / Galia Valtchinova -- Muslim devotional pactices in Christian shrines : the case of Istanbul / Dionigi Albera, Benoît Fliche -- Saint George the Anatolian : master of frontiers / Maria Couroucli -- A Jewish-Muslim shrine in north Morocco : echoes of an ambiguous past / Henk Driessen -- What do Egypt's Copts and Muslims share? : The issue of shrines / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- Apparitions of the Virgin in Egypt : improving relations between Copts and Muslims? / Sandrine Keriakos -- Sharing the Baraka of the saints : pluridenominational visits to the Christian monasteries in Syria / Anna Poujeau -- Conclusion : Crossing the frontiers between the monotheistic religions, an anthropological approach / Dionigi Albera.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.

Introduction : Sharing sacred places : a Mediterranean tradition / Maria Couroucli -- Identification and identity formations around shared shrines in West Bank Palestine and western Macedonia / Glenn Bowman -- The Vakëf : sharing religious space in Albania / Gilles de Rapper -- Komšiluk and taking care of the neighbor's shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Bojan Baskar -- The mount of the cross : sharing and contesting barriers on a Balkan pilgrimage site / Galia Valtchinova -- Muslim devotional pactices in Christian shrines : the case of Istanbul / Dionigi Albera, Benoît Fliche -- Saint George the Anatolian : master of frontiers / Maria Couroucli -- A Jewish-Muslim shrine in north Morocco : echoes of an ambiguous past / Henk Driessen -- What do Egypt's Copts and Muslims share? : The issue of shrines / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- Apparitions of the Virgin in Egypt : improving relations between Copts and Muslims? / Sandrine Keriakos -- Sharing the Baraka of the saints : pluridenominational visits to the Christian monasteries in Syria / Anna Poujeau -- Conclusion : Crossing the frontiers between the monotheistic religions, an anthropological approach / Dionigi Albera.

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