Michael Dumper 
Power, Piety, and People [EPUB ebook] 
The Politics of Holy Cities in the Twenty-First Century

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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 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 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 Hindu claims to sacred sites threaten the fragile equilibrium that exists in the city; Lhasa, where the Communist Party of China severely restricts the ancient practice of Tibetan Buddhism; and George Town in Malaysia, a rare example of a city with many different religious communities whose leaders have successfully managed intergroup conflicts. Applying the lessons drawn from these cities to a broader global urban landscape, this book offers scholars and policy makers new insights into a pervasive category of conflict that often appears intractable.

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List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Jerusalem: Template of a Holy City in Conflict?
2. The Politics of Regionalism: Cordoba’s Mezquita on the Frontline
3. Hindu–Muslim Rivalries in Banaras: History and Myth as the Present
4. A Very Secular Occupation: Buddhist Lhasa and Communism
5. Branding Religious Coexistence: Malaysia’s George Town as a Model City of Harmony?
6. Religious Conflicts in Cities
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Michael Dumper is professor of Middle East politics at the University of Exeter. His many books include
Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City (Columbia, 2014). His most recent edited volume is
Contested Holy Cities: The Urban Dimension of Religious Conflicts (2019).

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9780231545662 ● 文件大小 106.0 MB ● 出版者 Columbia University Press ● 市 New York ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2020 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7483182 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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