Geographies of Encounter

The Making and Unmaking of Multi-Religious Spaces
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-82524-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

This edited collection explores forms of multi-religious cohabitation as well as the spatial arrangements that underpin and shape them through sixteen chapters that range across disciplines, historical periods, and global geographies. Focusing on interactions between different religious groups and traditions, the authors conceptualize three types of spatial arrangements and explore how they operate ad geographies of encounter; i.e., multi-religious places, multi-religious cities, and multi-religious landscapes. With perspectives from anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and geographers, the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which geographies of interreligious encounters and forms of multi-religious cohabitation have changed throughout history due to their embeddedness id different frameworks of political organization, shifting religious ideologies, and changing forms of human mobility.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giorda, Maria Chiara

Burchardt, Marian

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Multi-Religious Places

Chapter 2. Religious Diversity and Cohabitation in a Multi-Religious Place: The Casa delle religioni in Turin

Chapter 3. The Multi-Religious Place of Vulcana Bai in Romania: An Ecumenical Project between Idealism and Pragmatism

Chapter 4. Mediatizing Architecture: Social Media, Meaning and Materiality in Berlin’s House of One

Chapter 5. The Ambiguity of Religious Places: The Case Study of the Sveti Naum Monastery in Macedonia

Chapter 6. Cohabiting an Imaginary Space: Ancient Jewish and Christian Representatiosn of the Temple and the Tabernacle, 1st Century BCE – 5th Century CE

Part II: Multi-Religious Cities

Chapter 7. Sharing Divine Powers in Late Antiquity: The Case of Daphne in Antioch

Chapter 8. Jerusalem and the Development of a Multi-Religious Urban Landscape: Between Coexistence, Contestation, and Mutual Disregard

Chapter 9. Was Byzantine Constantinople a Multi-Religious City in the 10th to 15th Centuries?

Chapter 10: Ancient Rome: Decline and Growth of Religious Diversity in a Cosmopolitan City

Chapter 11. Hegemony and/in the City: Religious Cohabitation in Alexandria between the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Chapter 12. Urban Religious Diversity and the Long Nineteenth Century: An Inquiry into Nationalism and Religiously Diverse Imperial Cities

Part III: Multi-Religious Landscapes

Chapter 13. St. Yared in the Simien Mountains of Northern Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Orthodox and Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) Religious Tradition

Chapter 14: A Shared Holy Landscape: The Reactualization of Egypt’s Sacred Geography in Medieval Islamic Thought

Chapter 15. Multi-Religious Spaces as Socio-Cosmic Field: Multiple Dynamics of Materialized Coexistence in the Case of GlaubensGarten (Garden of Faiths) in Germany

Chapter 16. Good Dees, Good Thoughts, Good Words: Zoroastrian Temples and Rites as Multi-Religious Heritage in Contemporary Iran

Über Autor(innen)

Marian Burchardt is Professor of Sociology at Leipzig University, Germany. His research explores how power, diversity and subjectivity play out in public space. His the author of Faith in the Time of AIDS (2015) and co-editor of Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes (2019).

Maria Chiara Giorda is Professor of History of Religions at University of Roma Tre, Italy. Her research interests are in religious education, geography of religions, history of monasticism, and religious diversity in public spaces. She is co-editor of the book Manuale di Scienze della Religione, 2019.