Alevi Identity Demands: The Legal and Perceptual Dimensions of the Struggle for Recognition [PDF]
İnsan & Toplum, 2021 This study examines the identity-related demands of the Alevi community in Turkey with the statementsof Alevi leaders. There is a set of issues almost all Alevis reach a consensus such as the need for legal status forcemevis, improvement of the status of
Talha Köse, Nigar Tuğsuz
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Analytical study of the impact of identity and historical factors on the political status of Turkish Alevis [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2023 The present research tries to investigate and analyze the impact of identity-ideological and historical factors on the political status of Turkish Alevis in different time series with an analytical method and using qualitative data obtained from library ...
saeed safi, Ahmad Movassaghi
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Identity and Perceptions of Procedural Justice in the Courts in Turkey: Ethnic and Political Factors [PDF]
İnsan & Toplum, 2022 Procedural justice, which is about the fairness of procedures that the legal authorities use in their interactions with the public, is an important determinant of people’s general evaluations of these authorities.
Sema Akboğa, Osman Şahin
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Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the “Rainbow Underclass” and Second-generation Alevi Kurdish Gangs in London [PDF]
, 2020 This article offers a case study of the adaptation strategies of a section of second-generation young male Alevi Kurds in London and the social conditions which make some of them more prone to join gangs and to reject mainstream institutions in their ...
Cetin, U., Cetin, U.
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Backgrounds and effective factors in the confrontation between Imamiyyah and Ash'arih in the Seljuk era [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2022 The difference between the Imamiyyah and the Ash'ari and the Abbasid caliphs was a result of the mission that the Seljuqs held for themselves as the supporters of the Sunnah religion and the caliphate against the threats of the Alawites and Shiites.
Mahboubeh Sharafi, Mohammad ali Saki
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Language attitudes and religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK [PDF]
, 2020 In this article I report on results of a Matched Guise Tests (MGT) study investigating attitudes towards Bohtan (BHKr) and Maraş Kurmanji (MRKr) spoken among the UK diaspora.
Yilmaz, B., Yilmaz, B.
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Processes of Coping with Difference among Adolescents
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021 Against the backdrop of their collective identity, identity formation poses a special challenge to young Alevis and Afghan Christians. In Turkey, Alevis constitute a marginalized group not officially recognized by the state. In Afghanistan, conversion to
Natalie Powroznik +2 more
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The Turkish Bağlama: A Sacred Symbol of Alevi Identity
Nota Bene, 2016 For the Alevi, the bağlama has become a powerful symbol of group identity. This paper discusses the important role that this Turkish folk instrument has in Alevi musical traditions and practices by first contextualizing the historical position of the ...
Rashid Epstein Adams
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Understanding Current Alevism: A Field Research in Ankara, Turkey
Espergesia, 2022 Anthropology is a discipline that attempts to understand the human condition epistemologically. Concepts such as ethnicity or identity keep framing these studies. Alevism is one of those which is called ethnoreligious.
Hülya Doğan Elibüyük
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From a ‘sort of Muslim’ to ‘proud to be Alevi’: The Alevi Religion and Identity Project combatting the negative identity among second-generation Alevis in the UK [PDF]
, 2017 This article explains how the negative identity of second-generation Alevi- Kurds in the UK has been transmitted intergenerationally, linked to their history of persecuted exclusion in Turkey and to the transnational settlement of Alevi migrants in the ...
Cetin, U. +3 more
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