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Understanding Current Alevism: A Field Research in Ankara, Turkey [PDF]
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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This paper will examine the transformation dynamics of social change in Kurdish Alevi communities, while mostly focusing on the increasing sociopolitical and religious role of talips.
Gültekin, Ahmet Kerim
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One of the most controversial issues in our country in recent years is Alevism. The popularity of it has made it a good opportunity for those who want to be popular.
Mustafa ÖNDER
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The article contains an effort for a sociological assessment of an Alevi identity. Here, first the theological pillars of the Alevi belief and the historical and cultural reality of these pillars, and in detail the identities of Turkish Alevis and their ...
Mehmet Zeki DUMAN
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This study is about the book titled Standing in Hakikatin Dârına Durmak Alevilikte Kadın, prepared by Bedriye Poyraz. The work consists of the papers of the Symposium on Women in Alevism in Faith and Social Life.
Meltem ÖSÜN
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Alevî-Bektaşî Menâkıbnâmelerinde Renk Sembolizmi
Tasavvuf literatüründe sûfîlerin hikmetli sözlerine ve faziletli davranışlarına yer veren, ermiş veya velî olarak kabul edilen tarikat büyüklerinin kerametlerinin anlatılması amacıyla yazılan menâkıbnâmeler ve velâyetnâmeler yazıldıkları dönemin ...
Sümeyye Yurduseven
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Language attitudes and religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK [PDF]
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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Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the “Rainbow Underclass” and Second-generation Alevi Kurdish Gangs in London [PDF]
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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TURKISH ALEVISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION
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
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Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s [PDF]
This article examines Kurdish historiography in Turkey in the 1990s. It centres on the question how the national community is historicised via central myths, especially for the pre-Islamic periods.
Hirschler, Konrad
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