Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities

Download or read book Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities written by Paulus Gijsbertus Johannes Post and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental changes in society and culture are forcing us to reconsider the position of sacred space, and to do this within the broader context of ritual and religious dynamics and what is called a 'spatial turn'. This collection of studies on sacred space concerns itself with both perspectives by exploring place-bound dynamics of the sacred in Africa and Europe. Cultural dynamics, identities and ownership, and contestations are very much interrelated. The essays and cases show that, via these contested fields, identities are always at stake.