Holy Lands and Sacred Histories in New Religious Movements
The 2017 CESNUR Conference
Monday July 3, 2017
Session 7
Around the Temple:
Holy Places and Contested Spaces in Israel
Chair: Marianna RUAH-MIDBAR
Feeling the Sacred: The Temple Mount and the Reconfiguration of the Jewish “Holy”
Tomer PERSICO (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Co-organized by:
Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR)
The Israeli Information Center for New Religious Movements (MEIDA)
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
The Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought (Ben Gurion University)
International Society for the Study of New Religions (ISSNR)