Shared Sacred Places

Abstract

Shared sacred places are shrines and sanctuaries attracting visitors across the religious frontier. Muslim, Christian and Jewish men and women visitors have mingled in many such places around the Mediterranean, during annual festivals in groups or between feasts as individuals seeking help or healing. Since the Middle Ages, populations belonging to these religious communities have coexisted within vast empires, in which the mode was living side-by-side, not living together. Mixed sanctuaries are best viewed as local responses to de facto situations (conflicts, wars, colonization, and population displacements) and as such they do not correspond to any official ritual tradition. A number of such holy places in the eastern Mediterranean are still open to shared practices where one can observe how the crossing of religious boundaries, hybridity, connectivity, time scales, sharing and intimacy actually work in practice.

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