Books in the History of Culture of the Modern Near and Middle East series

The volume focusses on transmission processes of Alevi religious knowledge and ritual practice in the last decades. It assembles contributions by researchers from Germany, Great Britain, and Turkey and discusses the transformations of knowledge transmission in Alevism from a transdisciplinary perspective.

The book analyses the ongoing struggle for a shared 'Alevi Cultural Heritage'. In these processes, the actors have to negotiate standardisation and plurality cutting across the manifold ethnic and socio-religious differences among Alevis.