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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 ...
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 ...
The Role of the Temple Mount / Al-Haram Al-Sharif in the Deterioration of Muslim–Jewish Relations
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
For both Jews and Muslims the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem constitute highly important religious, cultural, political and national centres. For centuries Jews in the diaspora prayed in the direction of ...
Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
This article focuses on contemporary interpretive knowledge projects that engage critically with Islamic religious sciences, and which are driven by the question of gender justice. These projects, which have been loosely ...
Arab revolts and 'Civil State': a new term for old conflicts between Islamism and secularism
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
The Arab revolts that erupted in late 2010, forcing from power the rulers of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, and dragging Syria through a ferocious civil war, reactivated the public debate on government in Islamic countries. ...