English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
  Architectures of interreligious tolerance: The infrastructural politics of place and space in Croatia and Turkey

Walton, J. F. (2016). Architectures of interreligious tolerance: The infrastructural politics of place and space in Croatia and Turkey. New Diversities, 17(2), 103-117.

Item is

Files

show Files
hide Files
:
2015_17-02_07_Walton-2.pdf (Any fulltext), 3MB
Name:
2015_17-02_07_Walton-2.pdf
Description:
-
OA-Status:
Visibility:
Public
MIME-Type / Checksum:
application/pdf / [MD5]
Technical Metadata:
Copyright Date:
-
Copyright Info:
-
License:
-

Locators

show
hide
Locator:
http://newdiversities.mmg.mpg.de/?page_id=2189 (Publisher version)
Description:
-
OA-Status:

Creators

show
hide
 Creators:
Walton, Jeremy F.1, Author                 
Affiliations:
1Research Group Empires of Memory, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society, ou_2301695              

Content

show
hide
Free keywords: politics of tolerance, spatial practices, Muslim minorities, Islam, Croatia, Turkey
 Abstract: Drawing on research conducted at a mosque in the Croatian port city of Rijeka and an integrated space of worship (a “mosque-cem house”) for Sunni and Alevi Muslims in the Turkish capital of Ankara, this essay traces the divergences between discursive practices and spatial practices in relation to infrastructures of religious diversity. After developing a theoretical model based on Michel de Certeau’s distinction between place and space, I examine the shared discourse of interreligious tolerance and pluralism that framed both Rijeka’s New Mosque and Ankara’s mosque-cem house. Following this, I analyze the radically different spatial practices choreographed by the two projects: the spatial “mixing” of distinct religious communities and forms of worship in the case of the mosque-cem house, and the spatial separation and sequestration of Islam in relation to the city and nation at large in the case of the New Mosque. I argue that the contrast between the politicization of the mosque-cem house project and the near-unanimous approbation for the New Mosque stems from this contrast in spatial practices. The essay concludes with a vignette from the neighborhood near the mosque-cem house that draws attention to the potential contradictions between infrastructures of diversity and more protean forms of social, cultural, and religious plurality.

Details

show
hide
Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2016
 Publication Status: Published online
 Pages: -
 Publishing info: -
 Table of Contents: -
 Rev. Type: -
 Identifiers: -
 Degree: -

Event

show

Legal Case

show

Project information

show

Source 1

show
hide
Title: New Diversities
Source Genre: Journal
 Creator(s):
Affiliations:
Publ. Info: -
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 17 (2) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 103 - 117 Identifier: ISSN: 2199-8116