The Orientalisation of the Holy Land
where is “the Holy Land” actually located? Holiness comes from within the believers, and a person, an object or a place only becomes sacred through the attribution of a religious meaning. How does this process affect those who actually live in a sacred place every day? Who perhaps do not share the religiosity ascribed to the place? And how does it affect those who do not live there and for whom sacredness is more important than the actual place and its inhabitants?
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