Abstract:

Since the establishment of the State of the Republic of Turkey, the modernization of Turkey has sought to reduce its political effectiveness by cleansing the religious social life in society. In fact, the purity of the revolution and the principle of secularity have achieved this greatly. Modernization formed around a secular perception of westernization and the principle of secularity has been the source of conflict between the center and the environment over time. While the environment has always defended a conservative religious concept, the central religion has always set a distance. On the other hand, the center has liberated the groups that stand out the cultural dimension of faith in society in order to control their beliefs. This approach has made religion a source of social inequality in society. In this sense, while the Alevians build their cultural identities, it is observed that they are faced with a state of confusion and misconduct. The Alevians, which are an example of social inequalities that form the source of religion in our country, are a community that lives with different rituals of their beliefs in society than the interpretation of the Sunni Islam. The Alevians, though in the history of the Republic had an ideology of the Republic and a policy consistent with the secularity, did not save themselves from self-autoculture. This study in Turkey is a study aimed at understanding how the liberalization efforts in religious arguments highlighted by the political power are perceived from the point of view of the Alevians, in response to the center’s existing perception of modernity. Our study will also reveal how this audience expresses its religious identity in the dimension of faith and how it positions itself beyond its marked identity in society in a sense.