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Sacred spaces and contested identities : space and ritual dynamics in Europe and Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Post, Paul, 1953- (Editor), Nel, Philip (Editor), Beek, W. E. A. van (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2014]
Subjects:
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: dynamics of construction of the sacred / Paul Post, Walter van Beek & Philip Nel
  • Addendum: site descriptions of the sacred sites of Eastern Free State / Stephanie Cawood & John Moephuli
  • Part I:Sacred space and the demarcation of identities
  • 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.