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Power, Piety, and People : The Politics of Holy Cities in the Twenty-First Century by Michael Dumper; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Conflicts in cities that have particular religious significance often become intense, protracted, and violent. Why are holy cities so frequently contested, and how can these conflicts be mediated and resolved?In Power, Piety, and the People, Michael Dumper explores the causes and consequences of contemporary conflicts in holy cities. He explains how common features of holy cities, such as powerful and autonomous religious hierarchies, income from religious endowments, the presence of sacred sites, and the performance of ritual activities that affect other communities, can combine to create tension.Power, Piety, and the People offers five case studies of important disputes, beginning with Jerusalem, often seen as the paradigmatic example of a holy city in conflict. Dumper also discusses Córdoba, where the Islamic history of its Mosque-Cathedral poses challenges to the control exercised by the Roman Catholic Church; Banaras, where competing Muslim and...
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- Author
- Michael Dumper; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231184779
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Political Science, Sociology
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