TITLU în română: Contribuţia fenomenologiei lui van der Leeuw la căutarea unei definiţii a locurilor sfinte în dreptul internaţional
Subiect: Assuming that some holy places constitute flashpoints in international politics, this article asserts that those holy places that gained international dimension must be regulated by international law. To effectively regulate those places at the international level, a legal definition of holy places is needed. To acquire some insights for this defining project, I propose that van der Leeuw’s extensive comment on holy places should be examined in order to see what lessons international lawyers can learn from van der Leeuw’s treatise when defining holy places. I have found that, in terms of methodology, his emphatic stance and interpolation should be adopted. Also, a holy place should be perceived as a ‘micro-order’. Finally, a discussion of the politics of pilgrimage is an inevitable corollary of holy places that gain international dimension, an aspect which needs to be handled with sensitivity.
