• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Contextualization: State, Religion, and Contested Borders


• Chapter 2: The Experience: Body Rituals


• Chapter 3: The Materials of Rituals


• Chapter 4: Place: Rituals as Land Claiming


• Chapter 5: Ritual, Landscape, and Alternative Order


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

Nurit Stadler is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is the author of Yeshiva Fundamentalism: Piety, Gender and Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World and A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony, and has published numerous papers on sacred shrines and pilgrimage.

Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East, highlighting the ways in which members of minority religious groups have laid claim to space through rituals enacted at sacred spaces in the Holy Land. Using ethnographic analysis, Stadler tracks the popularity of the rituals and the themes of female materiality they are often grounded in.