Workshop on “Oral scripture”: the construction of sacred texts of the minority religions of Kurdistan
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“Oral scripture”: the construction of sacred texts of the minority religions of Kurdistan
Tuesday 15 June, 2-6pm, seminar room 1, IAIS, Centre for Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter
The dominance of orality in the performance and transmission of the Yezidi and Yaresan religions of Kurdistan and Western Iran has been the object of scholarly interest for almost two decades. This workshop will provide the occasion for a detailed discussion of the sacred texts of these religions – how their sacrality is constructed, performed and conceived, and what marks them out from other elements of spoken discourse. It will bring together specialists on the two religions and their texts, and on Kurdish discourse (in its various dialects) more generally and reflect their research currently in progress.
The workshop will take the form of an informal round-table discussion, centred around the following presentations Read More…
