January 2020, Ergon Verlag – #OrientInstitutIstanbul, Edited by Martin Greve, Ulaş Özdemir and Raoul Motika
“This volume examines the aesthetic and performative dimensions of Alevi cultural heritage from past to present, in an interdisciplinary framework and using a wide range of approaches. The chapters analyse traditional, contemporary and transnational developments of Alevi cultural expression including modern adaptations, local and regional practices, Alevism in a wider context, textual sources and materiality. The perspectives of the various authors, including #RobertLanger, #NicolasElias, #SinibaldoDeRosa, #JérômeCler, #JudithHaug, #JaninaKarolewski and others, each coming from different disciplines, demonstrate the complexity of socio-historical and socio-cultural dynamics. To conclude, the present volume is intended as a first approach to a complex issue, which definitely deserves further research and analysis.”
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Contents
Martin Greve, Ulaş Özdemir, Raoul Motika
Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
I. Ritual, Body and Aesthetic
Robert Langer
The Aesthetics of Contemporary Alevi Religious Practice:
A Bodily-and-Material Cultures’ Approach ……………………………………………. 11
Nicolas Elias
The Drinking Dervishes.
An Enquiry into Ritual Inebriation in a Bektashi Congregation ………… 33
Sinibaldo De Rosa
Movement and Adaptation of the Alevi Semah for the Stage:
From Kardeşlik Töreni-Samah to ‘Biz’ ……………………………………………………. 45
II. Ritual and Musical Performance
Jérôme Cler
The Life of a Ritual Repertoire and its Aesthetic:
Cem Ceremonies in Tekke Köyü, the Village of Abdal Musa ……………….. 65
Martin Greve
Miracles and Tears. Religious Music in Dersim/Tunceli ……………………. 103
Ulaş Özdemir
With or Without Bağlama?
A Religious Aesthetic Debate on ‘Music’ Performance in Funerals …. 133
III. Written Sources of Alevi Cultural Heritage
Judith I. Haug
ʿAlī Ufuḳī’s Notation Collections as Sources
for ʿĀşıḳ Culture and Literature ……………………………………………………………. 159
Janina Karolewski
The Materiality of Alevi Written Heritage:
Beautiful Objects, Valuable Manuscripts, and Ordinary Books ………… 175
Contributors ………………………………………………………………………………………… 213