The Alevis in Turkey : the emergence of a secular Islamic tradition / David Shankland.

By:

Shankland, David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

020341750X
9780203417508
9781135789626
1135789622
9781135789572
1135789576
9781135789619
1135789614
9780415444361
0415444365
1280058129
9781280058127
0203419480
9780203419489

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alevis in Turkey.DDC classification:

297.8/3 22

LOC classification:

BP189.7.B4 S52 2003eb

Other classification:

11.83
EH 5418

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Contents:

Introduction -- 1. Alevi and Sunni in the Republic of Turkey -- 2. The sub-province -- 3. The Sunni villages : a model of rural integration -- 4. Susesi : an Alevi community -- 5. Religion, ritual and social control -- 6. Social change and the Alevi communities -- 7. The Alevis, evolving identity and the state -- 8. conclusion : comparative and theoretical relections.

Review: "The Alevis, a heterodox Islamic group in modern Turkey, have no church, no established doctrine and no shared liturgy. Instead, their religion has developed in rural Anatolia through hereditary holy figures who transmitted esoteric religious thought through music, poetry and collective rituals." "Using ethnographic material gained over a period of five years residence in Turkey, David Shankland shows how social change in the rural, hierarchical, rather closed Alevi communities is leading to the emergence of a unique secularist Islamic tradition. By including much contrasting information about the way the Alevi communities differ from the Sunni, their orthodox counterparts, this work is able to offer original insights into the wider processes of social change that are transforming Turkish society as a whole."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.

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"The Alevis, a heterodox Islamic group in modern Turkey, have no church, no established doctrine and no shared liturgy. Instead, their religion has developed in rural Anatolia through hereditary holy figures who transmitted esoteric religious thought through music, poetry and collective rituals." "Using ethnographic material gained over a period of five years residence in Turkey, David Shankland shows how social change in the rural, hierarchical, rather closed Alevi communities is leading to the emergence of a unique secularist Islamic tradition. By including much contrasting information about the way the Alevi communities differ from the Sunni, their orthodox counterparts, this work is able to offer original insights into the wider processes of social change that are transforming Turkish society as a whole."--Jacket.

English.

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