Response to Serafim Seppälä
Raudvere, Catharina (2016)
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2016
Kuvaus
Catharina Raudvere, University of Copenhagen
Catharina Raudvere is a professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen and manages its research centre ‘Many Roads in Modernity. South-eastern Europe and its Ottoman Roots’ (modernity.ku.dk). Her publications include the monograph The Book and the Roses. Sufi Women, Visibility and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul (2002) and the co-edited volumes Religion, Politics, and Turkey’s EU Accession (with Dietrich Jung, 2008), Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community (with Leif Stenberg2009), and Rethinking the Space for Religion. New Actors in Central and Southeast Europe (with Krzysztof Stala and Trine Stauning- Willert, 2012). Most recently she published Islam:
An Introduction (2015) and edited Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past: History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World (2016).
Catharina Raudvere is a professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen and manages its research centre ‘Many Roads in Modernity. South-eastern Europe and its Ottoman Roots’ (modernity.ku.dk). Her publications include the monograph The Book and the Roses. Sufi Women, Visibility and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul (2002) and the co-edited volumes Religion, Politics, and Turkey’s EU Accession (with Dietrich Jung, 2008), Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community (with Leif Stenberg2009), and Rethinking the Space for Religion. New Actors in Central and Southeast Europe (with Krzysztof Stala and Trine Stauning- Willert, 2012). Most recently she published Islam:
An Introduction (2015) and edited Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past: History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World (2016).
Tiivistelmä
A response to Serafim Seppälä’s article ‘The “Temple of Non-Being” at Tsitsernakaberd and remembrance of the Armenian genocide: an interpretation’. Key themes discussed include increasing efforts to convey divergent positions in a conflict when contemporary memorial sites are planned, as well as recent contributions within the academic field of memory studies, placing emphasis on local narrative and agency rather than institutional religious and national frameworks.