Passages of a global lifeworld

The chapter narrates aspects of the development or ‘passage’ of the Abrahamic domain – of Jews, Christendom, and Islam – through history. It includes consideration of spatiality, its aspects of ethos and dominion, and its relationship to the Land of Israel. It describes the origins and early development of the domain in the Land of Israel and subsequent emergence of Christianity ( Edom ) and of Islam ( Ishmael ). Spatial and temporal structures conferred its identity as a distinct global domain, possessing a single place of origin, from which it had expanded outwards across the globe. It is postulated that it possessed additional spatial characteristics, including the forms of social demarcation that existed in different geographical zones, and the potential for separation and division of its constituent parts. The chapter elucidates, how in the era of globalisation, the domain reached its fullest extent and significance and enumerates the main factors for this.