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The Changing Leadership Roles of »Dedes« in the Alevi Movement

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What is the function of clerical leadership in Alevism based on sociocultural and political understandings? Deniz Cosan Eke examines the political, cultural, and religious debates surrounding Alevi...
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  • 15 November 2021
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What is the function of clerical leadership in Alevism based on sociocultural and political understandings? To answer that complex question, Deniz Cosan Eke examines the political, cultural, and religious debates surrounding Alevis and the Alevi movement in relation to the ideas and claims of the Turkish state, Alevi communities in Turkey, and migrant Alevi communities in Germany. The book, which focuses on the emergence of collective emotions in religious rituals, the struggle of religious groups in migration processes, and the leadership role of clergy in social movements, is of great interest to a wide readership.
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Price: $60.00
Pages: 290
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 15 November 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837659573
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
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Deniz Coan Eke (Dr. phil.) is currently working as a postdoc researcher in Alevi Theological Studies at the University of Vienna in Austria. She received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. She has been a visiting researcher on transnational migration, religious groups, and interreligious dialogue at the University of Roskilde, the University of Westminster, and the University of Cambridge. She is the author of "The Changing Leadership Roles of "Dedes" in the Alevi Movement: Ethnographic Studies on Alevi Associations in Turkey and Germany from the 1990s to the Present" (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2021). She is co-editor with Eric Trinka of Religion, Religious Groups and Migration (Transnational Press, London, 2023).

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of Illustrations 9
1. Introduction 15
2. Historical Framework of Alevis in Turkey 35
3. The Alevi Movement in the Diasporic and Transnational Context 87
4. The Changing Leadership Roles of Dedes 115
5. Conclusion 205
Appendix 223
References 245
Acknowledgement 287