The Politics of Sacred Places
Palestinian Identity, Collective Memory, and Resistance in the Hassan Bek Mosque Conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nimrod Luz (0000-0002-7398-1618, Western Galilee College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1036-1052 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d2508 |
| OpenAlex | W2139822853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 46 |
Geographers dealing with religion have pointed to the process of conflict and contestation involved in the production of sacred sites. This paper explores the conflict over a sacred site in the formulation of a minority identity through transformation of the place into a nexus of resistance and collective memory formation. I argue that under hegemonic secularizing states and within the context of ethnonational conflicts minority groups mobilize and articulate a dynamic meaning of sacred sites which allows an elaborate politics of identity. Further, in the context of their national struggle, members of the community emphasize different aspects of the sacred. In the context of the national struggle (and for the duration of the conflict), minority members enhance inclusive nationalistic (Palestinian in this particular case) identity; however, while in a community context they emphasize the religious (Islamic) meaning of the place. Particularly, I examine the dynamic nature of interpreting and constructing the sacred through the analysis of the restoration project of the Hassan Bek mosque by the Arab-Palestinian community of Jaffa, Israel
Aesthetics · Collective identity · Collective memory · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Hegemony · Identity (music · Islam · Meaning (existential · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Bulldozer violence
Transformations in Islamic Pilgrimage Patterns and Meanings
The Last Mosque in Tel Aviv, and Other Stories of Disjuncture
Materiality as an Agency of Knowledge
A new struggle? Religious Muslim women’s activism at al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem
Re-forming the political body in the city
History, memory and the meaning of place
Mourners Are the Soundtrack of Life”
Religion and the Study of Social Memory
Infrasecular geographies
Queer urban trauma and its spatial politics
Framing Spatial‐Religious Conflicts
Strongholding the Synagogue to Stronghold the City
Religious Gentrification as Heterarchies of Urban Planning
The floating churches of Volgograd
Place-making and environmental change in a Hindu pilgrimage site in India
Settler Colonialism and Mortal Dangers
Something that feels like a community
Jaffa's contested heritage trails
Secularization, sacralization and the reproduction of sacred space
Converting Houses into Churches
We Have Come Back Home
Turkish-Dutch mosques and the formation of moral subjects
Land, fertility rites and the veneration of female saints
Sacred Rhythms and Political Frequencies
Overthrowing Geography
The Urban Experience
The Critical Mass in Collective Action
Contesting the sacred
The Desecularization of the World
The City and the grassroots.
Geographies of Exclusion
The demarcation of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa's municipal boundaries following the 1948 war
Loose ends
Geographies of Resistance
Feminism/Postmodernism
The Supreme Muslim Council
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000, The
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference
The Sacred and The Secular
The Arabs of Israel After Oslo
Geography and religion
The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948 to 2000
Reconfiguring the “Mixed Town”
Symbolic Places of National History and Revival
Stubborn identities and the construction of socio‐spatial boundaries
Negotiating Conceptions of 'Sacred Space
Afterword
Introduction
Monument and Myth∗
Mapping 'new' geographies of religion
"Toward a Geography of "Religion
Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world
Religion, place and space
From Arab Land to 'Israel Lands
Space and Religion
Urban Ethnocracy
Ideological Hegemony and the Political Symbolism of Religious Buildings in Singapore
Religion as Space for the Expression of Caribbean Identity in the United Kingdom
The mosque in the suburbs
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Established and the Outsiders
Nature', nationhood and the poetics of meaning in Ruhuna (Yala) National Park, Sri Lanka
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |