2017
DOI: 10.1017/s1755048317000281
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Gender and the (In)divisibility of Contested Sacred Places: The Case of Women for the Temple

Abstract: Contested sacred sites, over which different religious groups assert claims to exclusivity, have drawn scholarly attention to the spatial interaction between religion and politics. However, the gendered dimensions of inter-communal religious-political disputes over sacred space, and women's roles in these site-specific conflicts, have been largely neglected. Using a case study of Orthodox Jewish women's activism for access to Temple Mount al-Haram al-Sharif, this article demonstrates how attention to gender an… Show more

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“…Prickett (2015) applied this approach to women in an African American mosque, where she found women resisted gender, economic and racial oppression through their negotiating of gendered places within the mosque. Similarly, Ben Shitrit (2017) demonstrates the value of examining women's activism in contested sacred spaces, by exploring intercommunal conflict over sacred places in Israel.…”
Section: Space As Genderedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Prickett (2015) applied this approach to women in an African American mosque, where she found women resisted gender, economic and racial oppression through their negotiating of gendered places within the mosque. Similarly, Ben Shitrit (2017) demonstrates the value of examining women's activism in contested sacred spaces, by exploring intercommunal conflict over sacred places in Israel.…”
Section: Space As Genderedmentioning
confidence: 99%