1. Religion, Violence and Cities: An Introduction 2. The Fundamentalist City, Medieval Modernity, and the Arab Spring 3. Violence in a Religiously Divided City: Kaduna, Nigeria—From the Shari’a Riots of 2000 to the Post-election Clashes of 2011 4. Capturing Facades in ‘Conflict-Time’: Structural Violence and the (Re)construction Vukovar’s Churches 5. Intersecting Religioscapes and Antagonistic Tolerance: Trajectories of Competition and Sharing of Religious Spaces in the Balkans 6. Bible and Gun: Militarism in Jerusalem’s Holy Places 7. Urban Intersections: Religion and Violence in Belfast 8. Murder on the Tokyo Subway: Nerve Centres, Religion and Violence
Biography
Liam O’Dowd is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for International Borders Research at Queen’s University Belfast. He was co-investigator for the ESRC-funded project ‘Conflict in Cities and the Contested State (2007-13), Grant No. RES-060-25-0015. He has published extensively on borders, urban conflicts, the Northern Ireland conflict, nationalism and the role of intellectuals.
Martina McKnight is currently Research Associate at the Institute for Child Care Research, in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of gender, visual research methods and urban divisions.
