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Title:
Sacred spaces and contested identities : space and ritual dynamics in Europe and Africa / edited by Paul Post, Philip Nel, and Walter van Beek.
Publisher:
Africa World Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Sacred space--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Sacred space--Social aspects--Netherlands.
Rites and ceremonies--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Rites and ceremonies--Social aspects--Netherlands.
Group identity--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Group identity--Netherlands.
Other Authors:
Post, Paulus Gijsbertus Johannes, 1953- editor.
Nel, Philip, editor.
Beek, W. E. A. van, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From site to site: the digital monument to the Jewish community in the Netherlands / Cecile Post. Addendum: site descriptions of the sacred sites of Eastern Free State / Stephanie Cawood & John Moephuli -- Part III: Contested boundaries of the sacred -- Identity and sacred places / Walter van Beek -- Shrines and sacred places in two traditional West-African religions / Walter van Beek -- Sacred space and the ritual of the anthill: southern African reflections / Mogomme Masoga & Philip Nel -- Sacred sites and spiritual power. One angel, two sites, many spirits / Cas Wepener & Gerrie Ter Haar -- Finding a place for religion: the contested position of traditional Dutch religion in a Dutch suburb / Inez Schippers -- The making of Eastern Free State pilgrimage / Shirley du Plooy -- Part II: Sacred space and contested ownership -- Ownership of the sacred: complex claims and appropriations / Philip Nel -- "The broken man". The Harmelen railway disaster memorial: an example of a "postponed" and contested memorial / Laurie M.C. Faro -- Economic versus symbolic ownership of sacred sites in the Eastern Free State: contestations of the sacred / Philip Nel -- Distance and proximity. Abbeys as contested sites / Louis van Tongeren -- The rhetoric of ritual: sacred sites and the oral tradition in the Mohakare Valley / Stephanie Cawood -- Hagiography in the contestation of shared space and the cult of Sari Saltik / Robert Logan Sparks -- Part III: Contested boundaries of the sacred -- Complexity and conflict. The contemporary European church building as ambiguous sacred space / Paul Post -- Constructing "national" sacred space(s) -- notes, queries and positions: the case of the South African Freedom Park monument / Mogomme A. Masoga -- African spirituality and space / Philip Nel -- Pop and rock festivals as sacred sites. Behavioral and spatial approaches of festival -- place -- religion / Heleen Kommers & Martin Hoondert -- "The streets of Gouda are our Jerusalem!" a popular passion performed in the market square of a Dutch city / Martin Hoondert & Mirella Klomp -- Sacred space, deity's face. "Sattvicification" as a strategy to set up and maintain the Shree Raam Mandir in Wijchen as a sacred site / Albertina Nugteren -- From site to site: the digital monument to the Jewish community in the Netherlands / Cecile Post.
ISBN:
1592219551 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781592219551 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1592219543 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9781592219544 (hard cover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)856879267
LCCN:
2013034017
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

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