Geteiltes Gedenken 2013

Internationale Tagung an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 14.-15.2.2013.

Leitung: Prof. Dr. Ute Verstegen (Konzeption, Mitteleinwerbung und Durchführung, eigener Vortrag)

Mittelgeber: Dr. German Schweiger-Stiftung, Zentrum für Anthropologie der Religion(en) der FAU

 

Programm

Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2013, 18:00 h

Ort: Theologisches Seminargebäude, Kochstr. 6, Hörsaal A (2. OG)

Keynote Lecture: Glenn Bowman (University of Kent, Canterbury):
“The Grounds of Sharing: an Inquiry into Intercommunality at Religious Sites and its Dissolution”

Anschließend Umtrunk

 

Freitag, 15. Februar 2013, 09:00 h-18:30 h

Ort: Theologisches Seminargebäude, Kochstr. 6, Hörsaal A (2. OG)

Ute Verstegen / Margit Mersch: Einführung/Introduction

Markus Saur (Kiel):
Kultische Vielfalt im Jerusalemer Tempel der vorexilischen Zeit. Eine Spurensuche

Andreas Grüner (München/Erlangen):
Omnium daemonum templum – Das Kapitol in Rom als polytheistisches Zentrum der römischen Welt

10:30-11:00 Kaffeepause

Elizabeth Key Fowden (Berlin):
The nomadic presence at late antique Christian and Islamic holy places

Mattia Guidetti (Edinburgh):
Holy urban precincts. The contiguity of churches and mosques in early Islamic Syria

Ute Verstegen (Erlangen):
Shared memory. Simultaneous use of Jerusalem’s memorial sites by different religions

Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler (Marburg):
Die Gebetspraxis des Usama ibn Munqidh (12. Jh.) an mehrfach religiös konnotierten Stätten im Nahen Osten

13:00-14:30 Mittagspause

Robert Schick (Amman):
Shared Use of Religious Sites in India

Margit Mersch (Kassel):
Zyperns transkonfessionelle Pilgerstätten im Spätmittelalter

Hacik R. Gazer (Erlangen):
Die Simultannutzung von St. Nicolaus in Istanbul. Geschichte eines Scheiterns ?

16:00-16:30 Kaffeepause

Birgit Emich (Erlangen):
Taufbecken mit Trennwand: Simultankirchen des konfessionellen Zeitalters zwischen Recht, Politik und Phantasie

Carola Jäggi (Erlangen):
Simultankirchen des konfessionellen Zeitalters. Architektonische Lösungen für ein Neben- und Miteinander von Protestanten und Katholiken im 16.-18. Jh.

Andréa Vermeer (Erlangen):
Konflikthafte Normen und Werte in offenen Räumen – Conflicting norms and values in open spaces

Schlussdiskussion

 

Keynote Lecture von Glenn Bowman: “The Grounds of Sharing: an Inquiry into Intercommunality at Religious Sites and its Dissolution”

A long history of intercommunal relations around local holy places in historic Palestine (a history which sadly seems to be coming to a close in the current day) draws attention to what precisely is the character of the attachment felt by local residents to sacred sites. Muslim-Christian sharing of holy places (maqam, plural maqamat) can be seen to express a dependency on powers perceived of as resident in a site, and the nominal affiliation of these powers to one religion or another is often not a matter of great concern to those frequenting the shrines. It is, however, a focal concern of the officiants of the respective religions who lay claim to the sites and who seek to expunge heterodox practices and traces of ambiguous affiliation. I here investigate records of local usages of religious sites, largely rural, in Palestine up through the Mandate Period in order to argue that shared shrines, as opposed to those which appear to be communally homogeneous, foreground issues of agency obscured in those sites under the control of religious authorities. I then investigate the impact of disputes about property on the sharing of shrines through an examination of the historical development of Rachel’s Tomb, a shrine revered at various times by various combinations of Muslims, Christians and Jews, looking at how the increasingly incommensurate ideas of local inhabitants and immigrant Jews about how the holy place should be approached led initially to a spatial separation within the shrine and then to violent, and exclusive, battles over sectarian (and increasingly national) properties.

Glenn W. Bowman lehrt Social Anthropology an der School of Conservation and Anthropology der University of Kent. Seine Studien zu interreligiösen Kontaktsituationen in Konfliktregionen wie Palästina oder dem Balkan haben international Aufmerksamkeit gefunden. 2012 erschien „Sharing the Sacra: The Politics and Pragmatics of Inter-communal Relations around Holy Places”.