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This research proposes a new approach to the study of ritual through interreligious relations in Hatay, Turkey. By conceptualizing interrituality as a conceptual tool of analysis with which to investigate relations between differing religious communities through the lens of saint venerations rituals at shared sacred sites, the study of ritual as a material expression and manifestation of larger institutions of religious practice is reshaped and broadened. This helps to account for the concrete temporal and geographical contexts. I utilize interrituality in the analysis of shared ritual practices in Hatay—specifically between Arab Alawites and Greek Orthodox Christians—and the shared significance of saint veneration at sacred sites throughout the region. In utilizing a multi-sited approach to ethnographic research in studying interreligious relations, the infrastructures of interrituality focus on the intersections among interpersonal and interreligious relations, established through the performance of rituals as spatial and temporal interfaces. |
