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PopUp Exhibition | Karen Barkey, Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites: Mixed Attendance at Greek Orthodox Churches in Istanbul

October 26, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life 2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94720

The talk will describe and analyze Professor Karen Barkey’s two seasons of ethnographic study of the sharing in Greek Orthodox Churches in Istanbul, Turkey. The study explores identities, practices and patterns of participation in church rituals and life. The presentation will delineate between different choreographies of sharing, the borrowing of traditions, and the bricolage of practices that occurs as generations of Muslims and Christians accommodate to each other’s religious needs and negotiate in public their otherness.

Karen Barkey joined the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley Sociology in 2016 as the Haas Distinguished Chair in Religious Diversity. Professor Barkey is a major figure in comparative and historical sociology, whose work on the Ottoman Empire illuminates how empires have managed ethnic and religious difference in comparative and historical perspective. Her works include: Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization (Cornell University Press, 1999) and Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Her current research examines shared sacred spaces and the politics of pluralism.

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Date:
October 26, 2016
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Organizer

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Phone:
510.643.2526
Email:
magnes@berkeley.edu
Website:
http://magnes.berkeley.edu/

Venue

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
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Website:
http://magnes.berkeley.edu/