Abstract
As cities undergO dynamic changes, including demographic, geopolitical, sociocultural, and economic transitions, the desire of ethnonational and religious groups to build new holy places—or to rebuild or repurpose existing holy sites—can create tension that has the potential to escalate into physical violence. This chapter focuses on the city of Nazareth in order to illustrate the theoretical and practical implications of ethnoreligious conflict among Arab Palestinian citizens in Israel that arises out of competing claims over the nature, essence, and representation of a holy place. In the case of Nazareth, a city that is subject to multiple faiths’ claims
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites |
| Subtitle of host publication | Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution |
| Editors | B. Elazar, B. Karen |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 270-296 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-231-53806-0 |
| State | Published - 2015 |