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    Negotiating and rebuilding religious sites in cyprus
    Negotiating and rebuilding religious sites in cyprus
    Negotiating and rebuilding religious sites in cyprus
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    Negotiating and rebuilding religious sites in cyprus

    By Béatrice Hendrich

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    Cyprus is culturally determined by all kind of ‘multi-‘: Multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious. This diversity has sometimes resulted in new hybrid forms, sometimes in atrocities about the right creed/language/nationality. The history of ‘contested sites’ in Cyprus is long. Soldiers and rulers of differing Christian confessions fought for the possession of the island including its many churches and monasteries. With the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century, some major Gothic churches were turned into mosques, but at the level of popular practice and belief, graves and chapels turned into sites of ‘double use’ by Muslims and Christians. This coexistence and interblending continued –not always unchallenged of course– until the warlike situation after Cypriot independence in the 20th century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBéatrice Hendrich
    Release dateDec 3, 2013
    ISBN9788868852467
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      Negotiating and rebuilding religious sites in cyprus - Béatrice Hendrich

      Béatrice Hendrich

      Negotiating and Rebuilding Religious Sites in Cyprus.

      ISBN: 9788868852467

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      by Simplicissimus Book Farm

      Table of contents

      Negotiating and Rebuilding Religious Sites in Cyprus. (1)

      Content

      1. Preliminary

      2. Dr. Béatrice Hendrich, University of Cyprus, Nicosia Department of Turkish Studies

      3. Abstract

      4. Introduction – the religious plurality of Cyprus

      5. Religious Sites in the Fore of Political Controversy

      6. Current Restoration Activities

      7. Liminal Spaces – Religious at the Seaboard

      Hala Sultan Tekke

      Apostolos Andreas Church

      8. Conclusion: Handling and Narrating Precarious Sites

      9. Surces

      Preliminary

      After reading Hardy’s Phd Thesis on Archaeologists’ narratives on contested sites in Cyprus (Hardy 2010), a meticulous non-partisan analysis of academic oblivion and lies related to (religious) sites, and having been puzzled by contradicting or misleading information in site descriptions and news paper articles I had been reading before, I had to accept the fact that a ‘simple comparative description of two main sites in Cyprus’ –my original aim when I started to work on this article− could not be written under the current academic and political circumstances. What I tried to do, then, instead was to shed a light on the general complex situation, to show the multi-layer history of many religious sites in Cyprus and to avoid the pitfalls of the related master narratives as far as possible. This article can only be an attempt, an appeal to look closer and ask for more historical, political and institutional details in future research. I will be thankful for any sound information related to me on my sites.

      Dr. Béatrice Hendrich

      University of Cyprus, Nicosia Department of Turkish Studies.Scholar of Islamic and Turkish Studies; holding a PhD from Giessen/Germany on the semantics of „millet in the first years of the Great National Parliament of Turkey; research projects on marginalized cultures in Turkey and its Diaspora: Alevism, minority novelists of Turkey, Sufism and spirituality, Turkish/Muslim religious identities in Cyprus; theoretical focus on place/space, memory, narrating identity and history. Recent publication: Beyond State Islam: Religiosity and Spirituality in Contemporary Turkey", European Journal of Turkish Studies.

      Abstract

      Cyprus is culturally determined by all kind of ‘multi-‘: Multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious. This diversity has sometimes resulted in new hybrid forms, sometimes in atrocities about the right creed/language/nationality. The history of ‘contested sites’ in Cyprus is long. Soldiers and rulers of differing Christian confessions fought for the possession of the island including its many churches and monasteries. With the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century, some major Gothic churches were turned into mosques, but at the level

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