Yitzhak Reiter (Israel Ashkelon College)

Contested Holy Places in Israel-Palestine

Sharing and Conflict Resolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Religious leaders and political actors often use holy places to rally citizens to 'protect' or 'liberate' national territory as 'hallowed land.' The Holy Land, Palestine or Eretz-Israel, is the most obvious case of the process of 'religionizing' ethnic, national and territorial conflicts. This book analyzes fourteen case studies of conflicts over holy sites in the Holy Land, each representing a particular archetype of conflict. It seeks to understand the many facets of disputes and the triggers for the outbreak of violence in and around such sites. It also analyses the effectiveness of the conflict mitigation and resolution tools used for dealing with such disputes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781138243514
• ISBN-10: 1138243515
• Artikelnr.: 47423152

Autorenporträt

Yitzhak Reiter is a professor of Middle East, Israel, and Islamic Studies. He chairs the Department of Israel Studies and is Head of the Research Authority at Ashkelon Academic College. He is a senior researcher at both the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research and the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Challenging the Status Quo 1. The 1929 Western Wall
Strife 2. Post 1967 Struggle over Al-Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount 3.
Intra-Christian Conflict at the Holy Sepulchre and Deir al-Sultan 4.
(De)Constructing the Mughrabi Pathway 5. Breaking the "Custom of the Place"
by the Women of the Wall Part II: Contesting Space and Representation at
Holy Places 6. Imagining Holiness for Territorial Ends: Nachmanides Cave 7.
The Plaza/Mosque Strife in Nazareth (Shihab al-Din) 8. Museumizing over the
Dead: Mamilla Cemetery and the MOT 9. Judaizing David's Tomb Part III:
Demands to restore Past Rights 10. Diplomatic Challenge to the Status Quo
at the Cenacle 11. The Beersheba Mosque/Museum 12. Restoring Pilgrimage to
Mashhad Hussein in Ashkelon Part IV: Sharing Under Conflict 13. Sharing
within Fighting: Hebron's Shrine 14. Sharing and Co-existing at the Tomb of
Samuel/Samwil Conclusion