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War on Sacred Grounds
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War on Sacred Grounds Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Hassner, Ron E

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  • Title War on Sacred Grounds
  • Author Hassner, Ron E
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London
  • Date 2009-09-15
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5504086-6
  • ISBN 9780801448065 / 0801448069
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion and politics, Conflict management - Religious aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009016720
  • Dewey Decimal Code 203.509

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Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed space and wish to assert their own claims. Holy places thus create the potential for military, theological, or political clashes, not only between competing religious groups but also between religious groups and secular actors.

In War on Sacred Grounds, Ron E. Hassner investigates the causes and properties of conflicts over sites that are both venerated and contested; he also proposes potential means for managing these disputes. Hassner illustrates a complex and poorly understood political dilemma with accounts of the failures to reach settlement at Temple Mount/Haram el-Sharif, leading to the clashes of 2000, and the competing claims of Hindus and Muslims at Ayodhya, which resulted in the destruction of the mosque there in 1992. He also addresses more successful compromises in Jerusalem in 1967 and Mecca in 1979. Sacred sites, he contends, are particularly prone to conflict because they provide valuable resources for both religious and political actors yet cannot be divided.

The management of conflicts over sacred sites requires cooperation, Hassner suggests, between political leaders interested in promoting conflict resolution and religious leaders who can shape the meaning and value that sacred places hold for believers. Because a reconfiguration of sacred space requires a confluence of political will, religious authority, and a window of opportunity, it is relatively rare. Drawing on the study of religion and the study of politics in equal measure, Hassner's account offers insight into the often-violent dynamics that come into play at the places where religion and politics collide.

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About the author

Ron E. Hassner is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Visit his website at https: //sites.google.com/view/ronhassner/about-me.

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