ISBN:
9781317182658
,
9781317182634
,
9781317182641
,
9781315566566
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology 205
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.697825094
Keywords:
Alevis
;
Alevis
;
Alevis ; Europe
;
Alevis ; Turkey
;
Europa
;
Aleviten
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tözün Issa: 7 September 1956-17 November 2015 -- List of maps, photographs and illustrations -- Maps -- Photographs -- Illustration -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Alevi terms -- Pronunciation of Turkish, Kurdish and Zazaki characters -- Turkish characters -- Pronunciation of Kurdish characters -- Zazaki (Latin) characters -- The Zazaki Latin alphabet (Elifba Zazaki) -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: Alevism: Roots and practices -- Chapter 1: An introduction to Alevism: Roots and practices
Abstract:
Introduction -- Origins of Alevism -- Evolution of Alevism -- Practicing Alevism: Fundamental rituals and myths -- Mısaybine/Musahiplik [Spiritual brotherhood] -- Kewrayine/Kirvelik [Compaternity] -- Xizir/Hızır [Khidr] -- Jare/Ziyaret -- Cem -- Semah -- On İki İmam/Muharrem Fast [the 'Twelve Imams' Fast] -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: 'Heterodoxy' within 'heterodoxy': Anşa Bacı of the Sıraç Alevis, a charismatic female leader -- Introduction -- Political conditions that formed the Anşa Bacı movement -- Anşa Bacı as a Kizilbash political leader
Abstract:
The 'Great Guy': Anşa Bacı as a mythical charismatic ancestor -- Anşa Bacı as a Kizilbashi ancestor and the ancestral worship of today's Siraçis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Alevi of Dersim: A psychosocial approach to the effects of the massacre, time and space -- Introduction -- The Dersim Massacre (1937-1938) -- Kizilbaş/Alevi of Dersim -- The salience of Alevilik (Aleviness) through the generations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: The politics of identity in transformation -- Chapter 4: Alevism in Turkey: Tensions and patterns of migration -- Introduction
Abstract:
From the Ottoman Empire to present socio-political developments: their impact on the Alevi community -- Kizilbashi (Alevism) and Bekthashism in Ottoman domains -- The treatment of the Alevis in Atatürk's republic -- The Dersim massacre -- The atrocities in Maraş -- The Çorum Massacre -- Socio-political developments after Dersim: Post 1950s and inward migration -- The military interventions of 1961 and 1971: Further exoduses -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Urbanisation, socialist movements and the emergence of Alevi identity in the 1970s -- Introduction -- Background to field research
Abstract:
My 'settlement' at Ege -- Internal migration in Turkey -- Alevi communities from countryside to urban areas -- Political polarisation in the 1970s -- Liberalisation of Turkish economy and stratification of Alevi community -- Conclusion: Rediscovery of Alevi identity -- Notes -- Chapter 6: A Genealogy of modern Alevism, 1950-2000: Elements of continuity and discontinuity -- Introduction -- A general framework: The dissolution of the traditional socio-religious fabric in the urban context -- A Transitory period (1950-1980): A split of collective identity and the rise of a new synthesis
Abstract:
The emergence of the Gecekondu Alevism alongside village Alevism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-246) and index
DOI:
10.4324/9781315566566
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