Wearing fire and chewing iron: Oaths of peace and the suspension of monotheism in contemporary Alevism
This article examines the practices and discourses surrounding the ikrar oaths by which some Alevis in Turkey and the Turkish diaspora are initiated into their spiritual path. I examine a contemporary revival of this Alevi oath complex, which is a historical product of the same messianic trends in p...
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Cambridge University Press
2022
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