Antagonistic tolerance : competitive sharing of religious sites and spaces / by Robert M. Hayden with Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Timothy D. Walker, Aykan Erdemir, Devika Rangachari, Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Enrique López-Hurtado, Milica Bakić-Hayden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayden, Robert M., author.

Erdemir, Aykan, author.

Tanyeri-Erdemir, Tuğba, author.

Walker, Timothy D., author.

Rangachari, Devika, author.

Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel, author.

López-Hurtado, Enrique, author.

Bakić-Hayden, Milica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions--Relations.

Religions.

Relations.

Sacred space.

Physical Description:

xx, 203 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Antagonistic Tolerance examines patterns of coexistence and conflict amongst members of different religious communities, using multidisciplinary research to analyze groups who have peacefully intermingled for generations, and who may have developed aspects of syncretism in their religious practices, and yet have turned violently on each other. Such communities define themselves as separate peoples, with different and often competing interests, yet their interaction is usually peaceable provided the dominance of one group is clear. The key indicator of dominance is control over central religious sites, which may be tacitly shared for long periods, but later contested and even converted as dominance changes. By focusing on these shared and contested sites, this volume allows for a wider understanding of relations between these communities. Using a range of ethnographic, historical and archaeological data from the Balkans, India, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Turkey, Antagonistic Tolerance develops a comparative model of the competitive sharing and transformation of religious sites. These studies are not considered as isolated cases, but are instead woven into a unified analytical framework which explains how long-term peaceful interactions between religious communities can turn conflictual and even result in ethnic cleansing. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: competitive sharing of religious sites in Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America 1

A cautionary tale: the mosques and churches of Sarajevo 2

Convivencia 5

Tolerance: passive and active 6

Comparison as self-reflexive reciprocal illumination 9

Antagonistic Tolerance: competitive sharing, dominance and intertemporal violence 10

A general model and empirical indicators 13

Analyzing trajectories of interaction rather than, conditions of multiculturalism 15

Methodological mandates 17

The Antagonistic Tolerance project 18

Chapter synopses 19

2 Religioscape: concept, indicators and scales of competitive sharing through time 25

Shared space and intersecting religious networks 25

The concept of the religioscape 28

Religioscapes as markers of patterns of dominance through time 31

Measuring indicators of dominance 34

Centrality verticality; audibility 37

Directionality, decentering, recentering 38

Trajectories of competitive sharing on varying spatial scales 44

Cities contested, divided, reunited and "cleansed": pathways of violence as indicated by trajectories of intersecting religioscapes 44

Connections between divided cities and wider religioscapes 46

Limitations and opportunities for comparison: the examples of god capture in ancient India and the pre-conquest Americas 48

3 Seeing things hidden in plain sight: overcoming the self-limiting features of scholarly disciplines and area studies literatures 50

"Haci [Hajji] Augustus": a Roman temple intersecting an Ottoman mosque and a Muslim saint's tomb in Ankara 51

What is (not) interesting to scholarship 57

Hiding sites from sight 60

Emphasizing social processes rather than static conditions 64

Systematizing serendipity 66

4 Situating ethnography in trajectories of dominance 69

From ethnographic presence to intertemporal analysis 69

Syncretism and intertemporality 71

A case study: the shrine at Madhi, Maharashtra 72

Trajectories of dominance as necessary for understanding conjunctural ethnographic presents 88

Analyzing changes in overlapping religioscapes 91

The physical traces of hidden religioscapes 95

Reanalyzing Others' sites in terms of religioscapes and Antagonistic Tolerance 96

5 Techniques of domination: conquest and destruction, displacement or transformation of sacred sites 101

The mosque-church at Mértola, Portugal: from Roman pagans to (paleo-)Christians to Muslims to Roman Catholics 102

Transformations of sites in a city: a brief history of the conversion, destruction and construction of religious structures in Belgrade 1521-1867 113

Domination with accommodation 117

Attaining dominance by expanding an urban religioscape: early Ottoman Bursa, Turkey 118

Decentering and recentering after conquest: Chinchero, Peru 120

Strategic sight lines and marking domination of a larger region: prominent church and fortress sites in colonial Goa 126

6 God capture and antagonistic inclusion 131

Pre-conquest Mexico 131

Post-conquest Mexico 135

Ancient India 136

Ancient Near East 139

Late Antiquity 139

Deity mobility facilitating strategizing and resistance to domination in Goa 140

Modernity: state atheism and secularism 140

7 Religio-, secular- and archaeoscapes 151

Post-secularist competitions: Russia 151

The Republic of Turkey: state secidarism versus politicized Sunni Islam 152

Museumification as false religioscape: Castelo de Vide, Portugal 165

Secular artifacts or sacred religious objects? The practical consequences of bureaucratic politics 169

Archaeoscapes versus religioscapes: secularized pasts versus current religious practices 172

8 Re-establishing relations after even violent changes 174

Re-establishing sites without returning: Surp Giragos Armenian church, Diyarbakir, Turkey 175

Re-establishing sites and regular contacts: the tomb of St. Barnabas, Famagusta and St. Mamas Church, Morphou, Cyprus 177

Re-establishing sites of returning religious minorities: Ferhadija mosque, Banja Luka and Kondzilo, near Teslic, Bosnia and Herzegovina 178

The reallocation of rights after conflict: Ayodhya High Court decision 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138188808

1138188808

OCLC:

927618829