Writing Religion: The Making Of Turkish Alevi Islam
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Markus Dressler
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Oxford, New York
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: Oxford University Press
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, 2013
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xviii, 323p.
SERIES
Series Title
Reflection and theory in the study of religion.
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Index
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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.