Time, Power, and Religion: Comparing the Disputes over Temple Mount and the Ayodhya Sacred Sites
Abstract The main argument of this paper is that the sacred time and space of the nation has displaced the meaning of sacredness of the religious sites, and legitimized the national community. By comparing the Temple Mount and Ayodhya disputes, the paper exposes the tensions between two polarities,...
| Published in: | Journal of law, religion and state |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Journal of law, religion and state
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Temple Mount (Jerusalem)
/ Interreligiosity
/ Babur-Moschee Ayodhya
/ Quarreling
/ State power
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations KBL Near East and North Africa KBM Asia ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Genealogy
B religious vs. political B State B sacred vs profane B Secularism B Community B Nation (university) |
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| Summary: | Abstract The main argument of this paper is that the sacred time and space of the nation has displaced the meaning of sacredness of the religious sites, and legitimized the national community. By comparing the Temple Mount and Ayodhya disputes, the paper exposes the tensions between two polarities, sacred/profane and religious/political, which helps explain the influence of national identities on the contested sacredness of religious sites. The competition over the Temple Mount is nested within a “thicker” context of conflicting political claims over Jerusalem and national territory between Jewish groups on one hand and between Jews and Muslims on the other. The Ayodhya disagreement is related to the political tensions between the dominant and the minority religions, which have turned the religious dispute over a holy site into a debate on the sacredness of the national community. |
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| ISSN: | 2212-4810 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law, religion and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22124810-00803003 |