Alevism Between Standardisation and Plurality: Negotiating Texts, Sources and Cultural Heritage

ISBN-13: 9783631663554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 282 str.

Benjamin Weineck; Johannes Zimmermann

Opis

The book analyses the ongoing struggle for a shared 'Alevi Cultural Heritage'. In these processes, the actors have to negotiate standardisation and plurality cutting across the manifold ethnic and socio-religious differences among Alevis.

Spis treści

Literary Foundations of the Alevi Tradition - Defining Alevism via Written Texts - Alevi Cultural Heritage - Bektashi Hagiographies - Culture, Text and Identity amongst the Alevis - Between Debate and Sources - Religious Music in and from Dersim/Tunceli Today - Broadening and Homogenising the National Body - Approaching Alevi History beyond the Köprülü Paradigm

O autorze

Benjamin Weineck is Research Assistant in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Bayreuth.

Johannes Zimmermann is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East at Heidelberg University.