Cities of God and nationalism : Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as contested world cities / Khaldoun Samman.

By: Samman, KhaldounMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2007Description: viii, 247 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 1594512930 (hc : alk. paper); 9781594512933 (hc : alk. paper); 9781594512940 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1594512949 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Ethnicity -- Religious aspects | Ethnic relations -- Religious aspects | Jerusalem -- History | Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- History | Rome -- History | Judaism | Christianity | IslamDDC classification: 201/.72 LOC classification: BL65.N3 | S36 2007Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
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.
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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.

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