Abstract:

People’s movement from a place to another is called migration. Alevis are one of the communities that has been subjected to migration. Our research is dominated by the alterations that occur in the identities and belief factors of societies that underwent migrations. In this study, ‘’Alevi rituals in process of urbanization and changes in their belief practices’’ is touched upon under the title, ‘’Sivas-İstanbul’’ example, on urban area that chosen by us and in specialization on five villages that depend on communal ideal association. As another field of the study, in the result of the interviews made with the people who migrated from the rural areas for various reasons to the four districts that is detected in the province of Istanbul, the effects of changes and transformations on beliefs and rituals brought about by the phenomenon of urbanization have been tried to be proved.

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