Contested Spaces, Common Ground
Subtitle: Space and Power Structures in Contemporary Multireligious Societies
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9789004325791
Subjects: Religion and geography; Sacred space
Description: Spaces are produced and shaped by discourses and, in turn, produce and shape discourses themselves. Space is becoming a significant and complex concept for the encounter between people, cultures, religions, ideologies, politics, between histories and memories, the advantaged and the disadvantaged, the powerful and the weak. As a result, it provides a rich hermeneutical and methodological inventory for mapping interculturality and interreligiosity. This volume looks at space as a critical theory and epistemological tool within cultural studies that fosters the analysis of power structures and the deconstruction of representations of identities within our societies that are shaped by power. - back of book