Despite the existence of occasional shared or mixed religious spaces in the past, ‘multifaith spaces’ are relatively new phenomena and issues about their purpose, design, management, use and value are still emerging. While there is no ‘theology of multifaith spaces’, this article pursues an initial theological reading asking: how multifaith spaces relate to the heterotopias, non-spaces and Thirdspaces of some social theorists; what the theological issues around multifaith spaces are for those religious believers who use them; what theological approaches and language might begin to name and explore the potential of multifaith spaces for new shared understandings of human identity; and how multifaith spaces relate to notions of God.
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C. Emmett, ‘The Siting of Churches and Mosques as an Indicator of Christian-Muslim Relations’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 20:4 (2009), 451–76 at 461. This space is likely to have been the narthex, by ancient tradition reserved for the unbaptised. However, a report on the siege of the church in 2003 suggests Orthodox clergy were unaware of this tradition and only allowed the besieged Muslim soldiers to pray inside the church ‘given the circumstances’, see Carolyn Cole, ‘Praying Toward Mecca’, in ‘2003 Pulitzer Finalist: Breaking News Photography’, Los Angeles Times, <http://www.latimes.com/news/local/photography/la-ph-pulitzer-nativity-html,0,5157251.htmlstory>, [accessed 14 May 2013].
J. S. Fetzer and J. C. Soper, Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 99.
Kwame A. Appiah, Cosmopolitanism (London: Penguin, 2006), p. xiii.
Ibid., pp. xvii, 97 and 135 (original italics).
M. Foucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’, Diacritics, 16:1 (1972), 22–7.
See P. Sheldrake, Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity (London: SCM, 2001), pp. 1–32.
M. Augé, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity (London: Verso, 2008).
Ibid., pp. 35 and 63.
Ibid., pp. 64 and 87.
Ibid., p. 90.
Ibid., p. 61.
See P. Post and A. L. Molendijk, eds, Holy Ground: Re-Inventing Ritual Space in Modern Western Culture (Leuven: Peeters, 2010).
See G. D’Costa, ‘Interreligious Prayer Between Christians and Muslims’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 24:1 (2013), 1–14 and C. W. Troll, ‘Can Christians and Muslims Pray Together?’, The Way, 50:1 (2011), 53–70. (2011).
Ibid., pp. 16–17.
Ibid., p. 20.
Ibid., p. 70.
Ibid., p. 85.
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Despite the existence of occasional shared or mixed religious spaces in the past, ‘multifaith spaces’ are relatively new phenomena and issues about their purpose, design, management, use and value are still emerging. While there is no ‘theology of multifaith spaces’, this article pursues an initial theological reading asking: how multifaith spaces relate to the heterotopias, non-spaces and Thirdspaces of some social theorists; what the theological issues around multifaith spaces are for those religious believers who use them; what theological approaches and language might begin to name and explore the potential of multifaith spaces for new shared understandings of human identity; and how multifaith spaces relate to notions of God.
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