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Political Parties and the Production of Islam-Secularism Cleavage in Turkey
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
This study demonstrates how profoundly Turkey's main social clevage –Islam versus Secularism – is produced and reproduced by political parties in their attempts to form coherent sociopolitical bloc as a basis of mass ...
The Role of Theory in Folkloristics and Comparative Religion
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
Lauri Honko (1932–2002), the Finnish professor of folkloristics and comparative religion was a prolific and multi-talented researcher, whose topics of research ranged from the study of folk beliefs, folk medicine and Ingrian ...
The Interethnic and Interreligious Values in Turkish and Crimean Legends
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
The present paper examines interethnic and interreligious values in Turkish and Crimean folk legends. The folklore of both Crimea and Turkey has a multicultural background, which makes both corpuses of texts suitable for ...
Ethnicity and 'the Myth of the Reborn Nation': investigations in collective identity, monotheism and the use of figurines in Yehud during the Achaemenid period
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
The myth of the reborn nation’ was one of the results of my recent research on figurines, the history of the religion of Yehud, and the rise of monotheism. The purpose of this paper is presenting a discussion about ‘the ...
A Sacred Landscape: an enquiry into the 'cubas' of southern Portugal
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
The purpose of this article is to study cubas – small architectural structures known for their whitewash-painted domes – and specifically, those located in the kûra of Beja in Portugal. Although we can pinpoint the existence ...
Reflections. Remaking the City: Archaeological Projects of Political Import in Jerusalem's Old City and in the Village of Silwan
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
Since the mid-90s, archaeology has been a powerful tool for changing landscape and narrative in the Old City of Jerusalem and the village of Silwan – the "Historic Basin of Jerusalem". As archaeological excavations relate ...
In the Footsteps of Bagira: ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
This article has two aims. The first is to show that the search for ethnicity in archaeology is dependent on the way ethnicity is defined and on written sources. The second is to review studies of Iron Age I ‘ethnic Israel’. ...
Editorial. Concord, Conflict and Co-Existence: religion and society in the Middle East and North Africa
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
This is the editorial for the special issue 'Concord, Conflict and Co-existence: Religion and Society in the Middle East and North Africa'.
Secular and Religious Environmentalism in Contemporary Turkey
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
Turkish environmentalism is gaining ground but has not yet become a serious source of influence in society. The environmental movements have long been held as left wing politics and less religious, but today environmental ...
Vernacular Religion, Contemporary Spirituality and Emergent Identities: Lessons from Lauri Honko
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
This article examines lessons which can still be learned from Professor Lauri Honko’s research and writings, particularly for those working at the interstices of folklore and religious studies who appreciate the mutually ...