Cities of God and Nationalism: Rome, Mecca, and Jerusalem as Contested Sacred World Cities

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Khaldoun Samman

Cities of God and Nationalism

Rome, Mecca, and Jerusalem as Contested Sacred World Cities

Khaldoun Samman

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Routledge
15 November 2007

General & world history; Comparative religion; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict; Christianity; Islam; Judaism

"""A tour-de-force in different fields of knowledge. It takes world-city and world-history literatures to a higher level of depth and understanding. It is difficult to imagine a more pioneering, in-depth study of world cities.""

Ramon Grosfoguel, Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley ""A remarkable and original discussion of three great sacred cities across time, and their transformation by nationalism in the modern world."" Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University Far from spawning an age of tolerance, modernity has created the social basis of division

and exclusion. This book elaborates this provocative claim as it explores the rich but divided histories of three cities located at the crossroads of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Many observers presume that violence is built into these sacred cities because their citizens cling to religious or cultural ideals of some archaic age; only when this history is overcome can citizens enter a new age of brotherhood. Samman persuades us to refocus our attention on modernity, which has instilled troubling dilemmas from the outside. He shows how these sacred places long ago entered the modern world where global political and economic forces exacerbate nationalism and regional divisions. If we are to resolve deep conflicts we must re-imagine the institutional basis on which modernity, rather than religion, is built."

By: Khaldoun Samman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 276mm, Width: 219mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781594512933
ISBN 10: 1594512930
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 November 2007
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Khaldoun Samman, Associate Professor of Sociology at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the author of Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested World Cities (Paradigm 2007) and co-editor of Islam and the Orientalist World-System (Paradigm 2008).