Nationalism and the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount

The Exclusivity of Holiness
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-49919-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 193 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3745 g

This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinians and Israelis as a nationalist symbol legitimizing respective claims to the land. From the late-nineteenth century onward, the site's significance became reconfigured within the context of modern nationalist discourses, yet, despite the originally secular nature of Palestinian and Israeli nationalisms, the holy site’s importance to Islam and Judaism respectively has gradually altered the character of both in a manner blurring the line between religious and national identities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freas, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Materielle Kultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Theokratische und religiöse Ideologien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Chapter 1 – Provides background on the site’s religious history with respect to Judaism and Islam.
Chapter 2 – Discusses the early development of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism ideologically. 
Chapter 3 – Discusses the site’s nationalization during the British mandatory period up through the Wailing Wall Disturbances of 1929.<
Chapter 4 – Discusses the site’s nationalization during the British mandatory period in the aftermath of the Wailing Wall Disturbances of 1929.
Chapter 5 – Covers developments during the period 1948 – 1967, when Jerusalem was a divided city and the site was strongly contextualized within secular nationalist paradigms. 
Chapter 6 – Discusses developments immediately following the Six Days War, which marked the beginning of a convergence between Israeli national identity and Jewish religious identity and Palestinians’ rejection of secular Arab nationalism.
Chapter 7 – Discusses developments related to archeological activity, and the construction of narratives corresponding to respective nationalisms; among other things, this saw a strengthening of ties between nationalisms and respective majority religions.
Chapter 8 – Discusses the growing pervasiveness of Orthodox Jews and Hamas in defining Israeli and Palestinian nationalist discourses, in a manner greatly emphasizing their respective religious dimensions.
Chapter 9 – Discusses the growing influence of Protestant millennialism, not just among religious Israelis and Palestinian Christians, but also among Palestinian Muslims.
Chapter 10 – Discusses the emergence of the Islamic movement of Israel as a significant force in East Jerusalem.
Chapter 11 – Discusses more recent developments, coming up to the present.
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Erik Freas is Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA. Freas’s research focuses on Muslim-Christian Arab relations in Palestine during the Mandate and late-Ottoman periods. He is the author of Muslim-Christian Relations in Late Ottoman Palestine: Where Nationalism and Religion Intersect.