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This dissertation presents an ethnomethodological analysis of two contemporary apparition stories. The first case is an apparition of the Virgin Mary which is said to have appeared every day since 1981 to a group of young people in Medjugorje, a village in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Th…

This dissertation explores the phenomenon of "apparitions" in the post-war context of ex-Yugoslavia. On the one hand, it interprets the experience of seeing visions, and on the other it contextualizes these sightings into a political climate in the aftermath of the war in the 19…