ABSTRACT
In this chapter and the next two, we discuss techniques used to achieve and maintain dominance, which also, of course, means techniques that are used to challenge a previous form of domination. We start with the most dramatic, obvious and common method, that of the appropriation of a previous community's sacred site and its destruction or re-dedication to the service of the new community's religion. The AT framework can be used to analyze transformations of single key sites, and of competing religioscapes in a city through centuries, as we demonstrate with analyses of Mértola, Portugal in the first case, and Belgrade, Serbia in the second. Since we want to stress that domination requires the continued presence of the other community and not its elimination, we also present cases in which members of the previously dominant group continue to live in close proximity with the group that has come to dominate them, for centuries, through an analysis of what was once known as Brusa, in the Byzantine province of Bithynia, and is now the Turkish city of Bursa, and nearby towns.
