DIRECTORY OF SCHOLARS
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Albera, Dionigi
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Anthropologist, Research Director CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) – Institute of Mediterranean European and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC), Aix-Marseille University
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Shared sacred sites in the Mediterranean
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Algeria (Notre Dame de Santa Cruz, Oran; Notre Dame d’Alger, Algiers); Tunisia (La Goulette, Djerba); France (Notre Dame de Santa Cruz, Nîmes); Italy (Lampedusa); Turkey (arkeyüyükada; Saint Antony Church, Istanbul)
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albera@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Aubin-Boltanski, Emma
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Research fellow, Chargée de recherches -CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research)
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Pilgrimage; interreligious relations; the Virgin; mysticism
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Lebanon (Bechouate); Egypt (Zaytoun); Syria (Soufanieh)
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aubin@ehess.fr
Barkey, Karen
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Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity and Professor of Sociology – University of California, Berkeley
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Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Historical Methods
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Istanbul (Vefa, Saint Antony Church, Aya Yorgi, Büyükada)
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barkey@berkeley.edu
Bastin, Rohan
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Associate Professor of Anthropology – Deakin University
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Anthropology of Ritual & Religious Aesthetics, Secularism, Ethnicity, Civil War, Development
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Sri Lanka (Chilaw 1985-6; Kalutara 1994-5; Colombo 1998-2000, 2015-6; Kataragama 2008); India (Kerala 2000, 2008)
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rohan.bastin@deakin.edu.au
Bellamy, Carla
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Associate Professor of South Asian Religion – Baruch College, City University of New York
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popular Hinduism and Islam in contemporary India; conversion and issues of religious identity; communalism; religious healing; caste practices in non-Hindu communities
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none listed
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Central India (Husain Tekri; Jaora); Delhi (Shani temples); Mumbai (domestic imambaras); Udaipur (healing shrines)
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Carla.Bellamy@baruch.cuny.edu
Bielenin-Lenczowska, Karolina
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Dr, Assistant Professor – Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw / Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Santa Catarina
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anthropology of migration, neighbourly relations of Muslims and Christians in the Balkans, Islam in Europe; Polish Diaspora in Brazil; cultural heritage (food and language practices)
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Macedonia (Western part, inhabited by Muslims and Christians; 2006-2015), Brazil (villages in Parana state; 2015-16)
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k.bielenin@uw.edu.pl
Bigelow, Anna
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Associate Professor – Stanford University
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Sacred sites shared between Muslims and non-Muslims in India and Turkey, especially Punjab, Bangalore, Istanbul, and Selcuk
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Istanbul (Vefa), Istanbul (Ayasofya/Hagia Sophia), Selcuk (Meryemana Evi), Punjab (Malerkotla), Bangalore (Dargah Hazrat Tawakkul Mastan), Chikmaglur (Baba Budhan Shah/Swami Dattatreya Peeta)
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abigelow@stanford.edu
Boivin, Michel
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Director of Research in Historical Anthropology – Centre for South Asian Studies – CNRS-EHESS
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Sufism, Hinduism, South Asia, Sindhiyyat, Colonial and Postcolonial periods, Elite, knowledge
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Sindhicate area: Pakistan (Karachi, Hyderabad, Sehwan Sharif, Thatta), India (Bombay, Ulhasnagar, Baroda, Bhuj), London
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Bossi, Luca
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Research fellow in Sociology of Religions and Migrations – University of Turin, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society
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Religions in the public sphere; minority places of worship and the right to the city; politics and policies on religious minorities; migration processes and policies for social inclusion; urban contexts and the governance of diversity; processes of secularisation and religious transmission.
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none listed
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Italy, Switzerland
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luca.bossi@unito.it
Bowman, Glenn
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Professor of Socio-historical Anthropology – University of Kent
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Ethnic, national and religious identity politics, intercommunal relations, shrines and pilgrimage; Israel/Palestine (more)
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Israel and the Occupied Territories: Jerusalem (Anastasis, Tomb of the Virgin), Bethlehem (Rachel’s Tomb, Mar Elyas, Church of the Nativity), Beit Sahour (Bir es-Sayeedah), Khadr (Monastery of St George). Macedonia (FYROM): Kicevo (Sveti Bogoroditsa Prechsta), Makedonski Brod (Sveti Nikola), Stip (Husamedin Pasha Mosque)
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Bria, Gianfranco
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Professor of Islamic Law - Department of Oriental Studies, University of Rome Sapienza | Associate Member - Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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Islamic authority; daily-lived Islam; Ottoman and post-Ottoman Muslims history in southern-eastern Europe; shared beiefs & rituals; gender & body
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Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Turkey
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gianfranco.bria@gmail.com
Bryant, Rebecca
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Associate Professorial Research Fellow – European Institute, London School of Economics
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conflict and cultural heritage, coexistence, post-Ottomanism
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Cyprus, Turkey
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r.e.bryant@lse.ac.uk
Buturovic, Amila
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Humanities – York University, Toronto
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Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina; Islam in the Balkans; death culture; shared beiefs & rituals; shared healing practices
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Bosnia and Herzegovina (medieval stećak cemeteries; Ottoman tombstones)
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Cohen, Raymond
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Professor Emeritus – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Vatican-Israel relationship, Christian Holy Places in Israel
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
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raymond.cohen@mail.huji.ac.il
Couroucli, Maria
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Anthropologist, Research Director CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) – Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC), Paris
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Post-Ottoman world; Ritual and Religious Calendar; Greece; Turkey; shared sanctuaries of St George; Mediterranean shared shrines
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Istanbul (St George, Büyükada); Lesbos
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maria.couroucli@cnrs.fr
Cozma, Ioan
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Professor of Byzantine Canon Law at Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (Italy)
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Byzantine Law, Comparative religious law, Orthodox monasticism, Interreligious dialogue and conflicts, Shared religious places
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none listed
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Romania, Italy, and USA
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icozma@orientale.it
D'Alessandro, Eleonora
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MAXXI -National Museum of Contemporary Art
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Art history; Byzantine Art; Byzantine Architecture; Urban religions; Contemporary Architecture; Religious Architecture; Shared religious places
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Yerevan (Blue Mosque), Baku (Mir Movsum Agha tomb, Russian Orthodox Church, Besh Barmak pir, Ali Ayagi pir in Azerbaijan)
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eleonoradalessandro01@gmail.com
Darieva, Tsypylma
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Dr. – Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
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anthropology of transnational networks, urban sacred spaces, post-socialism, migration
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Yerevan (Blue Mosque), Baku (Mir Movsum Agha tomb, Russian Orthodox Church, Besh Barmak pir, Ali Ayagi pir in Azerbaijan)
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tsypylma25@gmail.com
de Obaldía, Vanessa R.
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Ottomanist, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz for the ERC Starting Grant Project titled Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society (MAMEMS): Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic, ca. 850-1550
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Doctrine and practice in Islamic law, non-Muslims and their communal and religious institutions in Ottoman Anatolia, exopraxis and conversion in relation to sacred spaces and places of worship, the study of historical and contemporary charitable endowments of minorities.
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Turkey and Greece
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v.r.deobaldia@gmail.com
de Tapia, Aude Aylin
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Historian, Junior Professor, Orientalisches Seminar, Alberts-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg (Germany)
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History and Anthropology of Ottoman and Turkish societies, Shared sacred sites in Turkey, Christian-Muslim coexistence, rural areas, cultural heritage.
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Turkey (Istanbul, Aya Yorgi Büyükada ; Cappadocia)
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aylin.de.tapia@orient.uni-freiburg.de
DiktaS, Mustafa
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Doctorant – École des hautes études en sciences sociales
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Anthropology of religion, Pilgrimage, shared sacred sites
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none listed
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İstanbul( Büyükada/ Aya Yorgi)
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mushtik@hotmail.com or mustafa.diks@outlook.com
Dumper, Mick
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Professor – University of Exeter, UK
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Conflict in cities, religious diversity, holy sites, Arab-Israeli conflict, India and Malaysia, forced migration, UN and conflict resolution
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Israel/Palestine, Varanasi, India and George Town, Malaysia
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mick.dumper@exeter.ac.uk
Eade, John
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Professor – University of Roehampton, UK
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global migration and pilgrimage across Europe
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Lourdes, France
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J.Eade@roehampton.ac.uk
Farra-Haddad, Nour
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PHD Religious Anthropologist – Centre d’Etude et d’interpretation du Fait Religieux (CEDIFR) – FSR -Saint Joseph Univeristy
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Pilgrimages, rituals, saints, religious tourism, Islam, Christianity, Lebanon, Holy land
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Beirut, North Lebanon, South Lebanon, Bekaa Valley, Mount Lebanon
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nour@neoslb.com
Federici, Angelica
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Digital Humanities, Shared religious places, Technology, Medieval art and architecture
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Italy
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angelica.federici@uniroma3.it
Fliche, Benoît
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Anthropologist, CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) – Institute of Mediterranean European and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC), Aix-Marseille University
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Turkey, France
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Istanbul (Büyükada, Saint Antoine, Eyüp); Ankara; Yozgat
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benoit.fliche@cnrs.fr
Fowden, Elizabeth Key
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University of Cambridge, Institute of Ismaili Studies
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Re-use and re-imagining of sites in Greater Syria / as-Sham (especially late antique and early Islamic), Greece (especially Ottoman)
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Rusafa, Syria; Athens, Greece
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ekf31@cam.ac.uk
Giorda, Maria Chiara
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Associate Professor of History of Religions Roma Tre University
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History of Monasticism; Shared religious places; Geography of Religions; Urban religion; pilgrimages
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mariachiara.giorda@uniroma3.it
Grant, Bruce
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Professor of Anthropology – New York University
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Historical anthropology, Islam
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Former Soviet Union, Caucasus, Azerbaijan
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bruce.grant@nyu.edu
Guidetti, Mattia
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Doctor – University of Vienna
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Islamic holy places / historiography / art and architecture
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Syria
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mattia.guidetti@univie.ac.at
Harmansah, Rabia
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Cultural Anthropology, Memory Studies, Anthropology of Religion, Material Culture
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Southern and Northern Cyprus (various sites), Turkey (Haci Bektas Veli Museum and Konya Mevlana Museum)
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rah48@pitt.edu
HadziMuhamedovic, Safet
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Anthropologist, Research Associate in Inter-Faith Relations (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge | Senior Teaching Fellow (SOAS University of London)
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syncretic religion and anti-syncretism; post-conflict inter-faith relations; time and temporality; home, belonging and migration; shared saints; posthuman theory and interspecies engagements; cosmology and water; nationalism; subjectivity and affect; solitude and loneliness; karst and subterranean rivers
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Bosnia (Gacko, Dinaric highlands, Popovo Polje, Sarajevo, Kreševo, Brateljevići, Ratiš, Ajvatovica, Stolac, Mokro, Tuzla); Palestine (Jerusalem, al-Ludd, al-Khader, Bethlehem); the Basque Country (Bilbao, Gernika)
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Hassner, Ron E.
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Associate Professor – U.C. Berkeley
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religion and conflict, religious practice, religion in the military
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Jerusalem, California
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hassner@berkeley.edu
Hayden, Robert M.
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Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs – University of Pittsburgh
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Anthropology of politics and law; competitive sharing of religious sites; comparative research; the Balkans; India
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India (Madhi and other sites associated with Kanifnath/ Shah Ramzan)
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rhayden@pitt.edu
Henig, David
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology – University of Kent
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Pilgrimage (esp. ziyaret), transregional dervish networks, genealogical imagination, mediation and materiality, ritual and temporality (esp. calendars), historical consciousness, religious nationalism and political cosmologies, everyday diplomacy in ‘mixed spaces’, local cosmopolitanism; Religious charity – ‘shared’ soup kitchens; Post-Ottoman world; post-Yugoslav spaces; Caucasus
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Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Dagestan; Sacred spaces: Pilgrimage sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina (especially Muslim sites) – Ajvatovica, Blagaj tekija, Karići, and localised annual ‘dove’ in Central Bosnia; Rifa’i lodges in post-Yugoslav spaces
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d.henig@kent.ac.uk
Jaffrelot, Christophe
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Research Director CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) – Centre de recherches internationales (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS), Paris, and Kings India Institute (London)
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India, Pakistan, Sufism, Dargah, Shia-Sunni relations
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Ahmedabad (Shah Alam and Sarkhej Roza), Ajmer (Dargah Sharif and Tara Garh), Delhi (Nizamuddin)
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jaffrelot@orange.fr
Jiga Iliescu, Laura
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Senior researcher in folklore and ethnology – The “C. Brailoiu” Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, Bucharest, Romanian Academy of Sciences
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vernacular religiosity in Orthodox Christian millieus (rituals, narratives, images); charms; shared sites and shared agents of sacredness; mountainous ethnology; orality and literacy
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Romania: monasteries with miraculous icons; Dervent Monastery (miraculous water and stone crosses); Babadag (grave of Koyun Baba)
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balaurax2@yahoo.com atelier.carpati@gmail.com
Kaliszewska, Iwona
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University of Warsaw, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
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Anthropology of Politics, Anthropology of Islam, Area studies in the Caucasus
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Dagestan, Chechnya, Ukraine, Georgia (Pankisi)
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iwona.kaliszewska@gmail.com
Kedar, Benjamin Z.
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Professor of History – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Comparative and world history; Crusades; The use of series of aerial photographs as a historical sources
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bzkedar@mail.huji.ac.il
Khamaisi, Rassem
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Professor – University of Haifa
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Urban and regional planning, Human Geography
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Istanbul
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Khamaisir@gmail.com
Klein, Menachem
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Professor – Bar Ilan University, Israel
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Palestine, Israel Muslim and Jewish holy sites
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Jerusalem [Temple Mt. Wailing Wall, Nabi Samuel], Hebron [Cave of Patriach] Nebi Rubin
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kleinm11@gmail.com
Koneska, Elizabeta
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N.I. Museum of Macedonia
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Slavic Orthodox community in Istanbul, Turkish and other Muslims ethnic and religious communities (Yuruks, Bektashi, Rufai, Torbeshi); Shared Shrines; Traditional food; Coppersmith and Tinsmith crafts
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Different towns and religious places, Stip – Husametin Mosque, Tetovo, Arabati Baba Tekke Kicevo, churches and tekkes, Bitola, krkkardas
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elizabeta.koneska@yahoo.de
Kreinath, Jens
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Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology – Wichita State University
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Eastern Mediterranean and the Northern Levant (Turkey, Syria, Iraq); Religious Minorities (Orthodox Christians, Arab Alawites); Interrituality, Semiotics, Aesthetics, Material Religion, Anthropology of the Body
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Antioch/Antakya (St. Pierre Church); Antioch/Antakya (Habib-i Neccar Mosque); Harbiye (Sheik Yusuf el-Hekim); Iskenderun (St. George Church); Samandağ (Hz. Hızır Rock)
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Jens.Kreinath@wichita.edu
Kuehn, Sara
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Doctor – Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna
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Central and Southeastern Europe (especially the tombs/maqāms of Ṣarī Ṣaltūq)
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Central and Southeastern Europe (especially Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Novi Pazar Sandžak in Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, the Dobruja in Romania and the Crimea, Ukraine) with particular focus on the Naqshbandiyya, Qādiriyya, Rifā‘iyya, Khalwatiyya, Mawlawiyya, Malāmiyya, Sa‘diyya and Bektāshiyya brotherhoods
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sara@sarakuehn.com sara.kuehn@univie.ac.at
Lubanska, Magdalena
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Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw
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Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes. Studies on Religious (Anti)Syncretism – Shared Shrines, Religious (Anti)syncretism, Pilgrimage, Strategies of Coexistence, Religious and National Identity and Ideologies, Religious Narratives, Apocrypha, (Post)Memory, Healing Practices, Material Religion, Ottoman Empire, Komsholuk, Muslim-Christian Relations in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Speaking Muslims (Pomaks), Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
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Hadzhidimovo (The Monastery of St George), Krastova Gora, Obrochishte (Tomb of Akyazili Baba/Monastery of St Athanasius)
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magdalena.lubanska@gmail.com
Luz, Nimrod
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Associate Professor – Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee
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geography of religion, anthropology of sacred sites, cultural geography, Israel/Palestine, sacred sites in contested regions, charismatic places, urban religions and religions in the city.
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Jerusalem (Haram al-Sharif, Old City, Rachel’s Tomb), Tel Aviv-Jaffa (Hassan Bey Mosque), Tiberias (Rachel’s Tomb), Bethlehem (Our Lady of the Wall), Ibbelin (shrine of Mariam Bawardy), Acre (Lababidi Mosque, Yashrutiyya Lodge), Kaukab abu al-Hijja (Maqam Abu al-Hijja). Acre (Religiocity: comparative analysis of religious infrastructures)
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Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine
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Professor of Modern History – Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris
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Egypt, Copts and Muslims, mawlids, History and Anthropology
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Cairo (Zeitun, Mataria); Northern Egypt (Tantâ); Upper Egypt (Assiut, Dronka)
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mayeur-jaouen@wanadoo.fr
Meri, Josef
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Professor – Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
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History of shrines in Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Iraq and Egypt, Medieval Syria, Jewish shrines in Egypt, Jewish shrines in Iraq, Jewish shrines in Palestine, shared Muslim and Christian shrines in Syria and Palestine, Ritual behaviour, history of sacred places, Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem
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Damascus, Jerusalem, Sitt Zaynab (Damascus), Sitt Ruqayya (Damascus), Dome of the Rock & Al-Aqsa Mosque (Jerusalem), John the Baptist (Damascus), Sitt Ruqayya (Damascus), Maqam Al-Arba’in (Damascus), Maqam Ibrahim (Damascus), Maqam Muhyi al-Din ibn Arabi (Damascus), Bab al-Saghir Cemetery (Damascus), Bab Tuma (Damascus), Maimonides Synagogue (Cairo), Shrine of Martyrs (Damascus)
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jwmeri@gmail.com
Mühlfried, Florian
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Dr. – Caucasus Studies Program, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
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sharing and not sharing the sacra
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Caucasus, particularly Georgia
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ethno.kaukasus@gmail.com
Neveu, Norig
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Research Fellow – Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), Amman
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Historical and anthropological methods, sacred topography, pilgrimage, heritage, Holy Land, Jordan, Palestine
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Jordan: Karak (al-Khidr), ‘Ajlûn (Mar Ilyas), Amman (Seven Sleepers)
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n.neveu@ifporient.org norigneveu@hotmail.fr
Omenetto, Silvia
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Research Fellow in Geography of Religions - University of Rome “Sapienza”
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Urban religions and religions in the city; Architecture (places of worship and cemeteries); Gurudwaras and Sikh communities in Europe (in particular Italy, Germany and France); Shared religious places; Urban Planning and regeneration; GIS and Geography of Religions; Salesian Geography in Argentina (1875-1910)
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Italy, France, Argentina
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silvia.omenetto@uniroma1.it
Pénicaud, Manoël
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Anthropologist, CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) – Institute of Mediterranean European and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC), Aix-Marseille University
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Pilgrimages Studies; Interreligious Studies; Mediterranean; Europe; Visual Anthropology (filming and photography); Museography
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Ephesus (Seven Sleepers, House of Mary); Jerusalem (Tomb of Mary, Holy Sepulchre); Palestine (Abraham Path); Sept-Saints, Vieux-Marché, Brittany (pilgrimage of the Seven Sleepers); Essaouira (pilgrimage of the Regragas)
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Perez, Nahshon
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Lecturer (Asst. Prof.) – Bar Ilan University
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Women of the Wall, political toleration, models of governing the sacred
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Western Wall, Women of the Wall
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nahshonp@gmail.com
Piraino, Francesco
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Postdoctoral Fellow at IDEMEC-CNRS (Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative)
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popular religion, spirituality and mysticism; Sufism and Catholicism; ethnography
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Palermo (Santa Rosalia), Avellino (Mamma Schiavona), Cyprus (Saint Barnabas), Assisi (Saint Francesco)
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francescopiraino84@gmail.com
Poujeau, Anna
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Anthropologist, CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) – Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (CéSOR-EHESS), Paris
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Near-East, Syria and Lebanon. Christian minorities, Interconfessionnal relations, monasticism, funeral rituals, poetics. Religious and Political Anthropology
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Syria: Damascus (Bab Tûmâ); monasteries in Qalamoun and in Wadi al-nassara; Hawrân and Jabal al-Arab
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Neveu, Norig
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Research Fellow – Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), Amman
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Historical and anthropological methods, sacred topography, pilgrimage, heritage, Holy Land, Jordan, Palestine
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Jordan: Karak (al-Khidr), ‘Ajlûn (Mar Ilyas), Amman (Seven Sleepers)
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n.neveu@ifporient.org norigneveu@hotmail.fr
Omenetto, Silvia
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Research Fellow in Geography of Religions - University of Rome “Sapienza”
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Urban religions and religions in the city; Architecture (places of worship and cemeteries); Gurudwaras and Sikh communities in Europe (in particular Italy, Germany and France); Shared religious places; Urban Planning and regeneration; GIS and Geography of Religions; Salesian Geography in Argentina (1875-1910)
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Italy, France, Argentina
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silvia.omenetto@uniroma1.it
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