Space, Gender, and Social Cohesion SYNOPSIS COMMENTARY

They were signaling that the ethnic and religious sectarianism of the past, which had divided the different communities of Sri Lanka, had to be transcended if the country were to become a cohesive society. [...] In Israel, the building of Jewish settlements on the West Bank is partly driven by the conviction that Jews have a divine right to the land, because of narratives in the Hebrew Bible. [...] In the West, as cities have become more ethnically and religiously plural, the negotiation of urban space to allow the expression of different identities has not been easy. [...] In Durham Cathedral in the United Kingdom, there is a black line across the floor towards the back of the building. [...] In the medieval period, women were kept behind the line, at the back of the building, forbidden from moving closer to visit the tomb of St.