A never‐ending story of an identity crisis or a creative reformulation of an Alevi‐mindset? What the case of Alevi youth in the German diaspora suggest today? [PDF]
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 48-64, April 2025.Abstract The Alevi movement, originating more than three decades ago in Turkey and the Western European diaspora, has led to significant social and cultural shifts within Alevi communities. This movement witnessed the emergence of Alevi associations, increased religio‐political activities, and a fervent search for a redefined Alevi identity.
Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
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Infrastructures of Urban Religious Management: Who Should Pay for the Utilities of Cemevis in Turkey? [PDF]
, 2018 In Turkey, electricity and water expenses for houses of prayer, such as mosques and churches, are covered by the state. Cemevis, places of worship for Turkey’s marginalized religious minority of Alevis, however, cannot benefit from from this regulation.
Özkan, Nazlı
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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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La judiciarisation contrastée de la question alévie:De la Turquie à l’Europe [PDF]
, 1951 La judiciarisation de la question alévie dans trois espaces – en Turquie, en Allemagne où sont installés de nombreux migrants alévis, et à la CEDH – montre l’absence de globalisation judiciaire, définie comme standardisation des doctrines, jurisprudences,
Massicard, Elise
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The Alevi Identity and Alevis’ Human Rights Conditions in the Republic of Turkey [PDF]
, 2023 This research’s central axes are human rights and freedoms and Alevis. It also explores the Alevis as a community, the Alevi identity, the Alevis’ use of human rights law language, the nature of the Alevis’ relations to the Republic of Turkey, and their ...
Erol, Melih
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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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Le dede moderne : évolution des paramètres de l’autorité religieuse de l’alévisme dans la Turquie contemporaine [PDF]
, 2006 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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Conspiracy theory as spatial practice: the case of the Sivas arson attack, Turkey [PDF]
, 2017 This article discusses the relationship between conspiratorial thinking and physical space by focusing on the ways conspiracy theories regarding political violence shape and are shaped by the environments in which it is commemorated.
Akbulut AK +40 more
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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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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 ...
Alexander +62 more
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