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Woman religiosity refers to the researches carried out on women's religiosity, which is one of the most important fields of popular religiosity, the dimension of religion in folk culture, on what and how women live as religion. The phenomenon of visiting is the characteristic dimension of folk religiosity with the parent cult belief in its origin. As a phenomenon, it meets the people's visiting holy places, which are very important centers of attraction thanks to spiritual strengths and virtues, with various wishes and purposes and certain methods. In this study, gender-based differences in traditional structures consisting of belief narratives and rituals are emphasized. By conducting a performance-oriented study, the gender of women in the rituals held within the scope of visiting culture was discussed. This study was carried out with a theoretical background for determining the place of the woman in the hagiographies and visit phenomena rituals, which are text and context-based work and belief narratives. As a result of the study, it has been observed that in the visits made by the public, emphasis on the gender of women was observed in the miracles shown by the female saints, and in the visits made by the public, female visitors showed their wishes through rituals that could be associated with the feminine culture.

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