Toplumsal bellek çalışmaları II. Dünya savaşı sonrası sosyal bilimler yazınında gittikçe artan bir popülerliğe kavuşmuştur. Ortaya konan eserler incelendiğinde bu çalışmaların trajedi ve yas merkezli oldukları görülmektedir. İnsan ve toplum hafızasının yaşanmış olan olumsuz olay…
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In a post-9/11 world the Crusades have received renewed attention for the possible ways that these medieval conflicts may have shaped our current geo-political climate. In academic circles, Crusades scholarship has been booming since the early 1980s. When examining the motives o…
This Project/Dissertation was an investigation into the role of the guide on pilgrimage. An incident experienced by the author provoked an examination of the tradition of pilgrimage, which identified a biblical tension between the pilgrimage of freedom in the exodus from Egypt a…
This dissertation explores the complex relationship that people have with shrines in southern Kyrgyzstan from the 1950s to the present. In particular, I look at how people, especially women, identify themselves as Muslims and how their religious beliefs and practices associated …
This study enquires into the impact of the Holy Land upon preaching and argues for the wider relevance of the Holy Land in all its aspects—geographical and cultural, historical and contemporary. In each section preaching strategies are suggested in relation to specific sites, ta…
“All Dear Unto God: Saints, Pilgrimage and Textual Practice in Jewish Morocco,” is based on two years of ethnographic and archival research centered around annual pilgrimages to the shrines of deceased Jewish holy-men in Morocco. My approach to the these events combines: (1) a r…
There has been an unrecognized convergence in sociological, psychological and anthropological theory surrounding situations outside of the ordinary. Synthesizing works of Weber, Durkheim, Turner, Maslow and others, this dissertation argues that routine-shattering situations gene…
The dissertation presents a linguistic analysis of the language of the sixteenth century Czech manuscript Cesta z Czech do Geruzalema knieze Martina Bakalarze (Martin Bakalarz's journey from Bohemia to Jerusalem), comparing it with two other sixteenth century Czech texts similar…
Cities On Hills: Seeking the Holy Land is a collection of thirty-two vignettes and poems that chronicle a month-long cultural exploration and archaeological dig in Israel/Palestine in 2000, the year before 9/11. The stories are told by a narrator ten years after her journey, ref…
This dissertation explores the intersections between tourism, theology and politics by focusing on a grassroots organization of evangelical tours to Israel. The study suggests viewing Christian Zionism as the underlying ideology that guides the organizers of the tours and explai…
This analytical ethnography provides the empirical and conceptual foundations for a theory of the emergence of social order through performative practice under conditions of uncertainty. Theoretically, the goal is to explicate ways in which uncertainty is integral to emergent so…
Modern historical inquiry into the crusade movement continues to be shaped by the overarching question of what exactly the crusade was. Instead of focusing on the ways in which the institutional authorities that summoned and organized these expeditions defined them, this dissert…
This thesis explores the interaction of ritual and architecture in the oracular temples of Apollo at Klaros and at Didyma and how that effected the transmission of divine knowledge to humans. Predicated on the assumption that concentrating on what transpired in the sanctuary tem…
Pilgrimage is perhaps the most characteristic and compelling literary technique of the medieval period. In spite of the diversity of instantiations of pilgrimage in medieval literature, critics have examined pilgrimage almost exclusively as an allegorical apparatus signifying sp…
The City of Mecca is considered to be a "sacred city" by Muslims. It is a city within which people have lived and worked and died for more than two thousand years. But it is more than that--it is also a sacred symbol for Muslims. To say this is to acknowledge that it is a place …
The historiography on western European Holy Land pilgrimage effectively ends with the fifteenth century, giving the inaccurate impression that early modern western Christians either did not visit Jerusalem or, if they did, they were not true pilgrims. Though pilgrim numbers cert…
Global mediation, communication, and technology facilitate pilgrimage places with porous boundaries, and the dynamics of porousness are complex and varied. Three Marian, Catholic pilgrimage places demonstrate the potential for variation in porous boundaries: Chartres cathedral; …
English literature about pilgrimage and crusade was written by and for people who defined themselves both as a religious community and as a nation in competition with older, more firmly established European kingdoms. These discourses of national English identity and Christian id…