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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia
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DESCRIPTION:Across the world\, religious and cultural identities are being
  weaponized for political gains. South Asia is no exception\, with frequen
 t conflicts between faith communities strengthening politico-religious org
 anisations\, and severely straining social cohesion. Yet this region also 
 has a history of religious intermingling\, exemplified by shared sacred si
 tes such as saints’ tombs\, temples\, churches\, and natural elements\, 
 serving as places of worship. Such ‘sites in common’ offer rich insigh
 ts into the dynamics of religious interaction. This book investigates them
  through two key questions.\n\nFirst\, it examines what shared places of w
 orship can reveal about plural societies in the midst of persistent religi
 ous and ethnic nationalism. Are they exceptional? Do they reflect or trans
 cend socio-religious fault lines? The authors approach coexistence as a te
 nsile equilibrium\, in which confl ict is no stranger to sharing: South As
 ia’s shared sacred sites are seen as social laboratories\, where communi
 ties experiment with pluralism and its challenges.\n\nSecond\, the contrib
 utors consider the politics of belonging\, questioning the boundaries betw
 een groups and religions. They examine the logics at work in people’s vi
 sits to places outside their own religious affiliation\, challenging theor
 etical frameworks of religious demarcation and showing the importance of o
 ther markers\, such as caste\, class\, language and gender.\n\nRSVP via th
 is email: guillaume.beaud@sciencespo.fr\n\nhttps://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/n
 ews-events/events-and-seminars/book-launch-shared-sacred-sites-in-south-as
 ia/
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LOCATION:Nuffield College - Chester Room (staircase C)\, Chester Room (sta
 ircase C) Nuffield College New Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 1NF United King
 dom
SPEAKER:Aminah Mohammad-Arif\, Grégoire Schlemmer\, Laurent Gayer (Scienc
 es Po)\, Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po)
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