TY  - GEN
A1  - Türk, Hüseyin
T1  - Alawi syncretism : beliefs and traditions in the shrine of Hüseyin Gazi
T2  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur
N2  - Religious Anthropology studies the origins, evolution and functions of religions. The discipline researching religious beliefs and rituals comparatively with cross-cultural perspectives tries to enlighten the belief world of the mankind. Religion, as a term, can be defined as "believing as well as worshipping to the supernatural powers and/or beings by the individual who are emotionally or consciously devoted to them" (Örnek 1988: 127). There have been a number of theories so far which try to bring an explanation to the origins and the evolution of religion. In these theories, Fetishism, cults of nature, animism, Totemism, dynamism, Manism, magic, polytheism, monotheism as well as certain physiological phenomena have been particularized as evolutionary stages and forms of belief (Evans-Pritchard 1998: 124). All of these theories have the perspective of so called "progressive" and / or "unilinear" that maintain a religion which has reached ongoing stages and that communities which have developed from primitiveness to civilization. They argue that there has only been one single line of progress, and all of the communities are bound to go through the same evolutionary stages.
T3  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur - 69 
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/467
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-50060
UR  - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm
SN  - 1434-5935
IS  - 69
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -