The author describes a program of photography workshops for Orthodox Jewish and Palestinian women in the West Bank she has conducted since 2016 in partnership with Roots, an initiative led by a Palestinian and Israeli settler committee. The workshops provide an environment where the women can interact with “the other” in an informal and safe setting, many for the very first time in their lives. They enable the participants to work together on joint projects in a setting where they can explore each other's life narratives as they learn a new skill, which engenders an awareness and understanding of similar life paths and shared humanity. The mutually illuminating activity promotes respect and is a step forward to a future of potential change. The program's participants describe its perspective-altering results and voice a hope for further engagement.
{"title":"Beyond Sides","authors":"Saskia Bory Keeley","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7585-6.CH013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7585-6.CH013","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes a program of photography workshops for Orthodox Jewish and Palestinian women in the West Bank she has conducted since 2016 in partnership with Roots, an initiative led by a Palestinian and Israeli settler committee. The workshops provide an environment where the women can interact with “the other” in an informal and safe setting, many for the very first time in their lives. They enable the participants to work together on joint projects in a setting where they can explore each other's life narratives as they learn a new skill, which engenders an awareness and understanding of similar life paths and shared humanity. The mutually illuminating activity promotes respect and is a step forward to a future of potential change. The program's participants describe its perspective-altering results and voice a hope for further engagement.","PeriodicalId":259562,"journal":{"name":"Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogues for Global Peacebuilding and Stability","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129415798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silicon Valley, known as the technology hub of the USA, has emerged as a medley of places of religious worship. It has become a home to wealthy Indian Americas and to many gods and goddesses who have come to reside there as well. Indian Americans have contributed significantly to the mushrooming of temples in this region. This chapter attempts to answer the following questions: How does diaspora provide a space to reconstruct the identity of the women practitioners? How does religion enable them to negotiate their roles in the public space? In this chapter, the author argues that Hindu women in the diaspora play a very significant role in selectively performing religious rituals in public places of worship as brought from their homeland. In performing these rituals, women are creating a distinct space in mainstream public culture to reconstruct their identity and agency beyond their roles as homemakers and professionals. In this specific case study, Odia women living in Northern California are not only reshaping their traditions but are engaged in interreligious dialogue in Silicon Valley corporate culture.
{"title":"Interfaith Dialogue in Silicon Valley","authors":"A. Pandey","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7585-6.CH012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7585-6.CH012","url":null,"abstract":"Silicon Valley, known as the technology hub of the USA, has emerged as a medley of places of religious worship. It has become a home to wealthy Indian Americas and to many gods and goddesses who have come to reside there as well. Indian Americans have contributed significantly to the mushrooming of temples in this region. This chapter attempts to answer the following questions: How does diaspora provide a space to reconstruct the identity of the women practitioners? How does religion enable them to negotiate their roles in the public space? In this chapter, the author argues that Hindu women in the diaspora play a very significant role in selectively performing religious rituals in public places of worship as brought from their homeland. In performing these rituals, women are creating a distinct space in mainstream public culture to reconstruct their identity and agency beyond their roles as homemakers and professionals. In this specific case study, Odia women living in Northern California are not only reshaping their traditions but are engaged in interreligious dialogue in Silicon Valley corporate culture.","PeriodicalId":259562,"journal":{"name":"Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogues for Global Peacebuilding and Stability","volume":"313 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131021454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Existing studies on Syrian refugees in Turkey focused either on the difficulties refugees have been experiencing or on how refugee identities have been unilaterally transformed during their interaction with the host culture. Drawing on the literature on identity and politics of recognition, this chapter argues that intercultural encounters transform the identities, values, and norms of both host communities and refugees. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with non-camp Syrian refugees and local citizens in the cities of Mersin and Adana to uncover the interactions of refugees and the host society, focusing on intercultural encounters at diverse settings, including classrooms, schools, campuses, hospitals, and neighborhoods. The chapter reveals that recognition of diverse cultures, respect, empathy, and social support influence intercultural interactions in a positive way. It also shows that reflexivity and the willingness to interact on the part of both refugees and the host culture facilitate interactions and negotiations between them.
{"title":"Searching for a Positive Intercultural Transition Between Syrian Refugees and Turkish Society","authors":"Marella Bodur Ün, Sevgi Balkan-Şahin","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7585-6.CH009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7585-6.CH009","url":null,"abstract":"Existing studies on Syrian refugees in Turkey focused either on the difficulties refugees have been experiencing or on how refugee identities have been unilaterally transformed during their interaction with the host culture. Drawing on the literature on identity and politics of recognition, this chapter argues that intercultural encounters transform the identities, values, and norms of both host communities and refugees. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with non-camp Syrian refugees and local citizens in the cities of Mersin and Adana to uncover the interactions of refugees and the host society, focusing on intercultural encounters at diverse settings, including classrooms, schools, campuses, hospitals, and neighborhoods. The chapter reveals that recognition of diverse cultures, respect, empathy, and social support influence intercultural interactions in a positive way. It also shows that reflexivity and the willingness to interact on the part of both refugees and the host culture facilitate interactions and negotiations between them.","PeriodicalId":259562,"journal":{"name":"Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogues for Global Peacebuilding and Stability","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129420072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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