ISBN:
9780700710874
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (266 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Alevi Identity : Cultural, Religious and Social Perspectives
DDC:
297.8/3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In the wake of demands by the Turkish Alevi for due recognition, there has been a rising interest in Alevi folklore and religious practices, and in what this branch of Islamic heterodoxy represents in terms of old and new identities
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements in the Second Edition; Preface; Bektashi/K z lbas: Historical Bipartition and Its Consequences; On Bektashism in Bosnia; Anthropology and Ethnicity: The Place of Ethnography in the New Alevi Movement; Academic and Journalistic Publications on the Alevi and Bektashi of Turkey; The Function of Alevi-Bektashi Theology in Modern Turkey; Political Alevism versus Political Sunnism: Convergences and Divergences; Development and Reformulation of a Returnee Identity as Alevi; Alevi Revivalism in Turkey
Description / Table of Contents:
State-Community Relations in the Restructuring of AlevismOttoman Modernisation and Sabetaism; A Critical Survey on Ahl-e Haqq Studies in Europe and Iran; Taqiya or Civil Religion? Druze Religious Specialists in the Framework of the Lebanese Confessional State; The Druze Religious Will as a Political Instrument; Alevis in Turkey-Alawites in Syria: Similarities and Differences; The Gnosis of Mountaineers and Townspeople. The Religion of the Syrian Alawites, or the Nusairis; Urban Visions and Religious Communities: Access and Visibility; Epilogue: The Scripturalization of Ali-oriented Religions
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Participants
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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