AVOUCHMENT IN ALEVISM-BEKTASHISM WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION
SOSYAL BÜTÜNLEŞME BAĞLAMINDA ALEVİLİK-BEKTAŞİLİKTE İKRAR

Author : Mehmet DÖNMEZ -- Serkan BALCI - Hasan ÇELİK
Number of pages : 149-160

Abstract

Alevism has a lot of rules and conventions that regulates the relationship of the individual with God and the living within the limits of its own belief. When we evaluate the individuals are creating their personality, the first and most important rule is undoubted “Promise (Taking Vouchsafe) Rule”. Every aspirant who has reached the moral and moral maturity must repeat his promise to God in the Council of Creation Assembly in a humanitarian assembly (jem square) due to his Alevi-Bektashi belief. These ceremonies mean that each individual who wants to declare his/her belief identity to the society and gain value in the social field with the values of this identity. The people who have to Alevi-Bektashi belief, aims at bringing his/her personality to the society, providing the social integration and having a place in the social field. In our article; We aim to provide general information to you researchers about how individuals who have Alevi-Bektashi belief joined the social integration starting from promise rules.

Keywords

Alevism, Avouchment, Social Integration, Ritual

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