This course examines religious narratives of collective traumas: Jewish representations of the Shoah and Islamic and Christian representations of the Palestinian Nakba. Comparatively, how are discourses of loss and redemption coded within the symbolic universes of these historically-related religious traditions and deployed in the sacralized politics of memorialization and remembrance? What is the symbiotic relation between conflicting narratives of victimization, imbued with religious meaning, and the historical and contemporary situation in Israel and Palestine?.