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Samman, Khaldoun.

Cities of God and nationalism : Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as contested world cities / Khaldoun Samman. - Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2007. - viii, 247 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index.

Modernity, religion, and violence : sacred cities and the roots of conflict -- The making of sacred world cities : how Christianity and Islam transformed identities -- Rome, Mecca, and the coming of modernity -- Modernity and the unraveling of Jerusalem -- Beyond nationalism : Jerusalem and the negation of peoplehood.

ISBN: 1594512930 (hc : alk. paper) 9781594512933 (hc : alk. paper) 9781594512940 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1594512949 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006015115

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nationalism--Religious aspects.
Ethnicity--Religious aspects.
Ethnic relations--Religious aspects.
Judaism.
Christianity.
Islam.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Jerusalem--History.
Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--History.
Rome--History.

LC Class. No.: BL65.N3 / S36 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 201/.72