Heterodoxy Turkish Folk Religion and Wali Cultus

Number: 25 March 1, 2011
  • Halil Saim Parladır
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Heterodoxy Turkish Folk Religion and Wali Cultus

Abstract

Spirituality can be described as the search of mankind for emancipation from physiological and social determinants of life. In this context, it can be argued that, spiritualism is the will of man for permanence and infiniteness who is an impermanent and finite being. For this reason, spritualism links man to the the sacred which is infinite and omnipotent. This describes the relationship between spritualism, magic, myth and religion. Religion is the major channel for spritualism when compared to the others, but at the same time, religion delimits it and forces it to adapt to the cultural, social and political standarts. Religion supresses spiritualism, but in the end, spiritualism finds a gap through religious life. Namely mythological and magical aspects of religion correspond to the spiritualistic requirements in a society. The conceptualization folk religion, reflects this fact. In connection with this, the main aim of this work is to try to put forward the folk religious aspect of Islam and of Turkish society. The main way of getting in touch with the sacred in Turkish folk religion is the beliefs and practices occure around the tombs of saints or places related to the saints who are called as walis in Islamic terminology. Eventhough neglected by the religious officials, these beliefs and practices are common among the Turks’ religious imagery. Mostly identified with the material aspects of emancipation, these beliefs and practices connotes the possibility of touching the sacred and benefit from its baraka. In this context, in this work, these beliefs and practices are classified and analyzed through the concept of the wali cultus

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Primary Language

Turkish

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Authors

Halil Saim Parladır This is me

Publication Date

March 1, 2011

Submission Date

March 1, 2011

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Published in Issue

Year 2011 Number: 25

APA
Parladır, H. S. (2011). HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*. Sosyoloji Dergisi, 25, 125-133. https://izlik.org/JA74AJ98JN
AMA
1.Parladır HS. HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*. JOS. 2011;(25):125-133. https://izlik.org/JA74AJ98JN
Chicago
Parladır, Halil Saim. 2011. “HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*”. Sosyoloji Dergisi, nos. 25: 125-33. https://izlik.org/JA74AJ98JN.
EndNote
Parladır HS (March 1, 2011) HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*. Sosyoloji Dergisi 25 125–133.
IEEE
[1]H. S. Parladır, “HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*”, JOS, no. 25, pp. 125–133, Mar. 2011, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA74AJ98JN
ISNAD
Parladır, Halil Saim. “HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*”. Sosyoloji Dergisi. 25 (March 1, 2011): 125-133. https://izlik.org/JA74AJ98JN.
JAMA
1.Parladır HS. HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*. JOS. 2011;:125–133.
MLA
Parladır, Halil Saim. “HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*”. Sosyoloji Dergisi, no. 25, Mar. 2011, pp. 125-33, https://izlik.org/JA74AJ98JN.
Vancouver
1.Halil Saim Parladır. HETERODOKSİ, TÜRK HALK İSLAMI VE EVLİYA KÜLTÜ*. JOS [Internet]. 2011 Mar. 1;(25):125-33. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA74AJ98JN

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