Spiritual but not Religious?: New Mevlevis of Contemporary Mevleviye in Turkey
Mevleviye as an Islamic religious order is established in Anatolia after the passing of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi in the 13th century. Based on bigger ethnographic research, this paper tries to delve into the distinction between spiritual and religious from the perspective of new Mevlevis of contemp...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: The Cultural Bias of Religiosity: Concepts, Measurements, and Results from Non-Western Perspectives, edited by Sarah Demmrich and Ulrich Riegel |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Journal of empirical theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 122-148 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Turkey
/ Mevlevi order
/ SBNR
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B spiritual but not religious B Turkey B Mevleviye B Sufism |
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| Summary: | Mevleviye as an Islamic religious order is established in Anatolia after the passing of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi in the 13th century. Based on bigger ethnographic research, this paper tries to delve into the distinction between spiritual and religious from the perspective of new Mevlevis of contemporary Mevleviye in Turkey. The authenticity of new Mevlevis’ standpoint while defining themselves as spiritual but not religious reflects the effects of modernization and individualization in Turkey as well as Mevleviye’s particular approach to spirituality. This reflection seems to reveal the flaws of Western definitions of the spiritual that is often presented as a contrary notion to being religious. Besides offering a discussion on the case of new Mevlevis’ understanding of spiritual and religious, this paper also argues that spirituality has to be studied empirically and defined in regards to its context and culture rather than as an essentially contrasting notion to being religious. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-9256 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of empirical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15709256-12341408 |