Workshop on Sacred Places Funded by the Philipp Schwartz-Initiative (original) (raw)

2019, Sacred Places: Changing Interconnections Between Religion and Politics

Sacred places around the world play an important role in shaping our understanding of religiosity, society, politics and culture. In the 21st century, sacred places worldwide have gained new attributes, becoming important identity indicators for diasporic communities, and constituting multicultural crossroads in border areas and along the symbolic boundaries between different groups. The workshop will focus on the ethnic and territorial aspects of religion by studying sacred places that are located on borders between cities, states, and ethnic/religious regions, as well as in conflict zones and disputed territories. We wish to explore how sacred sites are becoming increasingly relevant in dictating, shaping, and negotiating geopolitical zones, ethnic identities, collective memory, and new political attitudes, as well as in reinventing cultural identities. Moreover, we wish to investigate how sacred places are being instrumentalised in relation to political as well as cultural boundaries between communities and borderlands in different places worldwide.

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