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Editorial of Special Issue of National Identities: Alevism as an ethno-religious identity: Contested boundaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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
Akdemir A.   +34 more
core   +1 more source

Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
wiley   +1 more source

TURKISH ALEVISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2013
Alevis are forming a large religious community in Turkey. According to different estimations they compose 10 up to 20% of the country’s population. Their system of religious belief is called Alevism which is one of the heterodox Muslim sects.
D. V. Zhigulskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
wiley   +1 more source

The Ottoman state and descendants of the prophet in Anatolia and the Balkans (c. 1500-1700) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Throughout the Islamic world those claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad (T. seyyid/serif pl. sadat/esraf) were (and are) accorded a special status.
Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya, Canbakal
core   +1 more source

Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Symptoms and Impacts Experienced by Healthcare Professionals as Second Victims After a Safety Incident: A Scoping Review

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 5, Page 4538-4592, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to describe the types of psychological and physical symptoms experienced by healthcare professionals who became second victims after a patient safety incident and the impact of the incident on their social and professional lives. Design Scoping review.
Laura Jukarainen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islam hétérodoxe et christianisme en Grèce

open access: yesCahiers Balkaniques, 2017
In South-Eastern Europe, Alevism and Bektashism constitute two tightly connected religious movements whose roots go down to the Ottoman history of this area.
Isabelle Dépret
doaj   +1 more source

Freedom of religion in Turkey - The Alevi issue. EPC Commentary, 24 January 2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Freedom of religion is a fundamental right that must be protected and respected by states. While Turkey has taken important steps in advancing religious freedoms over the last decade, a number of challenges remain.
Paul, Amanda, Seyrek, Demir Murat
core  

Money Earning Activities and Empowerment Experiences of Rural Migrant Women in the City: The Case of Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article investigates empowerment in relation to money-earning activities in the context of rural-to-urban migrant women in poor families in Turkey.
Erman, T.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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