Glenn Bowman. The Choreography of Cohabitation:Contemporary Sharing of Shrines in Macedonia
Keywords:
shrines, sharing, mixing, SufI, muslim, Orthodox Christian, ritual, practice, tolerance, antagonismAbstract
This paper aims to contribute some contemporary fieldwork insights from Macedonia to discussions on the coexistence of Muslims (both Sunni and Sufi) and Orthodox Christians around sacred sites. While recent developments have led to the dominance of‘clash of civilisations’ discourse in such situations, I here use detailed studies of the three sites where intercommunal mixing occurs to evidence a range of different modalities of interaction, spanning a spectrum from overt antagonistic intolerance through non-conflictual cohabitation to forms of sharing close to syncretistic practice. The paper investigates the elements of the social fields engaged by these communities that prompt hostility, permit coexistence, and promote identification, and inquires whether the more benign forms of interaction currently manifest in Macedonia are atavistic in settings increasingly marked by ethno-nationalism and fundamentalism.Downloads
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