Contested Spaces, Common Ground: Space and Power Structures in Contemporary Multireligious Societies

Winkler, Ulrich (Editor)/ Rodriguez, Lidia (Editor)/ Leirvik, Oddbjørn (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9004325794 / ISBN 13: 9789004325791

Published by Brill Rodopi, 2016

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378 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contested Spaces, Common Ground: Space and Power Structures in Contemporary Multireligious Societies
• Publisher: Brill Rodopi
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004325794
• ISBN 13: 9789004325791
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.59 kilograms

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Synopsis

Spaces are produced and shaped by discourses and, in turn, produce and shape discourses themselves. ‘Space’ is becoming a significant and complex concept for the encounter between people, cultures, religions, ideologies, politics, between histories and memories, the advantaged and the disadvantaged, the powerful and the weak. As a result, it provides a rich hermeneutical and methodological inventory for mapping interculturality and interreligiosity. This volume looks at space as a critical theory and epistemological tool within cultural studies that fosters the analysis of power structures and the deconstruction of representations of identities within our societies that are shaped by power.

About the Author

Ulrich Winkler is Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Co-Director of the Centre for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies at Salzburg University, Austria.

Lidia Rodríguez Fernández, is biblical lecturer at the University of Deusto (Bilbao and Donostia) in Spain. She has published several articles on religious diversity and secularization in the Basque Country.

Oddbjørn Leirvik is Professor of Interreligious Studies at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway.