The Alevis in Turkey : the emergence of a secular Islamic tradition /
"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...
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London ; New York :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2003
London ; New York : 2003 |
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Table of 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