Üst Kavramsallaştırma Olarak Alevilik: Akide ve İbadetler Açısından Alevilik-Nusayrilik İlişkisi
Alewism as a Supra Conceptualized: Relationship Betweeen Alawism and Nusayrism in Terms of Beliefs and Practices

Summary/Abstract: Today, when identities are micro-documented, it is seen that many group identities under the name of Alevism umbrella identity are used under a roof unlike the historical, theological and sociological data of religious groups with different precursors. It is seen that the Turkish Alewism and Nusayrism, which have very different beliefs and practices of worship according to their historical and theological resources, are often used for some purposes under the same roof of Alevism as a supra-identity. A comparison between rituals such as prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, zakat and sacrifice and the beliefs such as beliefs in God, the Hereafter, the Angel, the Prophet and the well-known believers and the ritualistic dimensions of Islam as the main source of the external identity and internal identity components of these two groups will give us an idea of the use of Alewism supra - conceptualization for these two groups. In this context, the problem of the article is; to compare Turkish Alewism and Nusayrism, which are components of Alewism high conceptualization. Accordingly, the study will seek to explore the limits of the possibility of Alevism high conceptualization by comparing these two groups according to the rites and ritual dimensions of the religious experience. The study was carried out with a qualitative pattern, taking into account the historical and theological comparisons as well as field studies. As a result, when comparing the Alewism high usage with belief, worship and some rituals are specific to two groups, it is thought that there are many different beliefs, worships and practices except for the similarities arising from being two groups belonging to the same religion, and therefore the possibility of this upper conceptualization is considered to be a challenge.

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