1st Edition
Alevism as an Ethno-Religious Identity Contested Boundaries
Introduction Celia Jenkins, Suavi Aydin and Umit Cetin
1. The emergence of Alevism as an ethno-religious identity Suavi Aydin
2. Constructing a social space for Alevi political identity: religion, antagonism and collective passion Omer Tekdemir
3. The AKP, sectarianism, and the Alevis’ struggle for equal rights in Turkey Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
4. Thoughts on the rhetoric that women and men are equal in Alevi belief and practice (Alevilik) – to Songül Nimet Okan
5. Television and the making of transnational Alevi identity Kumru Berfin Emre Cetin
6. From ‘a sort of Muslim’ to ‘proud to be Alevi’: the Alevi religion and identity project combatting the negative identity among second-generation Alevis in the UK Celia Jenkins and Umit Cetin
Biography
Celia Jenkins is based in the Department of History, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Westminster, UK. She is a sociologist of education and gender, specialising in the relationship between the state, education, religion and identity. She has published on religious education and identity with reference to the transnational Alevi ethno-faith communities in London and Turkey.
Suavi Aydin is based in the Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. He is a social anthropologist of religious communities, specialising in the Middle East, and has published on ethno-faith communities including the Alevis. His latest book addresses the contemporary history of Turkey through examination of the Kurdish question, political Islam, nationalism and militarism in Turkey.
Umit Cetin is based in the Department of History, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Westminster, UK. He is a sociologist of religion, transnational migration, identity and suicide, and has published on suicide amongst second-generation Alevi migrants, ethnography, cosmopolitanism and religious education and identity.
