Le dede moderne : évolution des paramètres de l’autorité religieuse de l’alévisme dans la Turquie contemporaine [PDF]
L’article décrit, en la replaçant dans son contexte, l’évolution moderne du leadership et de la structure d’autorité dans l’alévisme turc. Au siècle dernier, à la faveur des processus d’urbanisation et de sécularisation, l’alévisme turc a subi de ...
Dressler, Markus
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Aleviness, Music, and Hospitality
The paper examines urban Alevi traditional culture in Turkey as a possible example of an ethics of hospitality, drawing mainly from Alevi teachings and musical heritage. Through an examination of the lyrics of selected Alevi sacred songs the author presents various accounts of hospitality that are integral to Aleviness.
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The Alevi and questions of identity, including violence and insider/outsider perspectives
Alevilik is the second largest religious movement in Turkey after Sunnite Islam. The Alevi worship Ali and the twelve Imams of his family. Ali is more or less deified and therefore Alevis are considered as being ghulat (‘exaggerated’, ‘extremist’) and ...
Tina Hamrin-Dahl
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At the time Tambar wrote The Reckoning of Pluralism, there was a brief opening in Turkish political life during which ethnic and sectarian plurality was both imaginable and debatable.
Kimberly Hart
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Durkheim, ethnography and suicide: researching young male suicide in the transnational London Alevi-Kurdish community [PDF]
This study of the unusually high incidence of young male suicides in the transnational Alevi-Kurdish community in London, demonstrates the benefits of combining a Durkheimian structural approach with a qualitatively driven ethnographic methodology ...
Cetin, U., Cetin, U.
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THE ALEVI / ALAWITE FACTOR IN TURKEY - SYRIA RELATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS [PDF]
The Syrian civil war exacerbated sectarian divisions between the Alawite-ruled Syrian government and Syria's Sunni population, straining also the relations between the Sunni majority and Alawite and Alevi minorities of the neighboring Turkey.
Mkrtich Karapetyan
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The emergence of Alevi associations in Cyprus is a result of the partition of the island in 1974 in a “Turkish” and a “Greek” part, and the following settlement of roughly 100.000 migrants from the Turkish Republic in northern Cyprus.
Beatrice Hendrich
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The meaning of city living for rural migrant women and their role in migration: the case of Turkey [PDF]
Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article explores the meaning of city living for Turkish women and the role women play both in the migration process and in establishing their lives in the city.
Erman, T.
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Alevi Cultural Heritage in Turkey and Germany: Negotiating “Useable Pasts” in Transnational Space
The accelerating references to Cultural Heritage in politics and scholarship have impacted on ‘vernacular’ or migrant communities’ aspirations for the recognition of their distinct identities and have likewise influenced nation-states’ policies on ...
Benjamin Weineck
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Editorial of Special Issue of National Identities: Alevism as an ethno-religious identity: Contested boundaries [PDF]
No abstract for editorial but this is the opening paragraph: This special issue on Alevism and trans/national Alevi identity critically engages with the relationship between religion, ethnicity and national identity. The core issues are as follows: • how
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