The Roots of Secularism in Northern Cyprus and Turkey’s Ambition of Islamization
Ijtimā'iyya, 2020 The conquest of Cyprus by the Ottoman Empire in 1571 had an impact on the growing Muslim population there. However, the majority Muslim population does not make Northern Cyprus adopt Islam as the official religion of the country.
Riskiansyah Ramadhan
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Durkheim, ethnography and suicide: researching young male suicide in the transnational London Alevi-Kurdish community [PDF]
, 2016 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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Pir Sultan Abdal : Encounters with persona in Alevi lyric song [PDF]
, 2011 In his 1997 Nobel Prize lecture, Contra jogulatores obliquentes, Italian dramatist Dario Fo makes an oblique reference to a famous medieval Ottoman "jester."1 The "jester" is not mentioned by name but rather in the context of the murder of 35 artists and
Koerbin, Paul
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The Analysis of Abdal Musa’s Miracle, the March of Mountains and Stones, in terms of Time, Location and Object Symbolism / Abdal Musa’nın “Dağların Taşların Yürümesi” Kerametinin Zaman, Mekân ve Eşya Sembolizmi Bakımından Değerlendirilmesi [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2018 This study examines the miracle of the March of Stones and Mountains found in Abdal Musa Velâyetnâmesi in terms of time, space and object. Sufism which appeared in the 9th century is the foundation of sufi school in the 15th century.
Aynur Koçak*, Serdar Gürçay**
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Ethnic identity and perceptions of the police in Turkey: the case of Kurds and Turks [PDF]
, 2018 Drawing on the literature on minorities’ and ethnic groups’ perceptions of the police, this article investigates the differences between Kurds and Turks in terms of their perceptions of the police in Turkey.
Akboga, Sema, Sahin, Osman
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Kentsel Dönüşüm Süreçlerinin İzmir’deki Cemevleri Üzerine Olası Etkileri
Coğrafi Bilimler DergisiThis study focuses on possible impacts of urban renewal processes on Cemevies in case of İzmir metropolitan area by focusing on construction stories of cemevies. It claims neoliberal urbanism complicates the production of Cemevi and draws attention to
Gülcan Kaygusuz, İrfan Kaygalak
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Cosmopolitanism and the relevance of ‘zombie concepts’: the case of anomic suicide amongst Alevi Kurd youth [PDF]
, 2017 Against Beck’s claims that conventional sociological concepts and categories are zombie categories, this paper argues that Durkheim’s theoretical framework in which suicide is a symptom of an anomic state of society can help us understand the diversity ...
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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