Dumper explores how religious and political interests compete for control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and how this competition affects the Middle East conflic

Religion and religious nationalism have long played a central role in many ethnic and national conflicts, and the importance of religion to national identity me

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools-

This book explores how public space in Republican Rome was an unstable category marked, experienced, and defined by multiple actors and audiences.

In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation—and the conflict behind the creation—of sacred space in America. The essays in this volum