Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-89792-9
Ph.D.
Anthropology
University of Toronto (Canada)
2014
This dissertation is an ethnographic investigation into the politics of religious difference in Turkey. Drawing on fieldwork in Antakya, a city near Turkey's Syrian border populated by Arabs and Turks of Sunni, Alawi, Jewish, and Orthodox Christian backgrounds, it explores the mundane, political, and aesthetic representations of religious difference and demonstrates how such difference is constructed, lived, and configured in everyday realms of sociality. Four such realms are focused on: a multi-religious choral ensemble, Antakya's historical marketplace, domestic and communal sitings of guesthood (misafirlik), and places and discourses of common worship.
Religion; Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Border;Religious diversity;Secularism and the secular;Tolerance;Turkey