Writing Religion: The Making Of Turkish Alevi Islam
\ Markus Dressler
Oxford, New York
: Oxford University Press
, 2013
xviii, 323p.
Reflection and theory in the study of religion.
Index
Prologue: Alevism contested --Genealogies and significations --The western discover of the Kizilbas-Alevis --Nationalism, religion, and intercommunal violence --Entering the gaze of the nationalists --Nationalism, historiography, and politics --Religiography: taxonomies of essences and differences --Alevi and Alevilik in the work of Fuad Koprulu and his legacy --Tropes of difference and sameness: the making of Alevism as a modernist project.