publications - Religionswissenschaft

PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
2013
Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Reflection and Theory in the
Study
of Religion). New York: Oxford University Press (Turkish translation
forthcoming).
2002
Die alevitische Religion. Traditionslinien und Neubestimmungen (Abhandlungen zur
Kunde des Morgenlandes LIII,4). Würzburg: Ergon.
1999
Die civil religion der Türkei. Kemalistische und alevitische Atatürk-Rezeption im
Vergleich (Arbeitsmaterialien zum Orient 4), Würzburg: Ergon.
Edited Volumes
2011
Secularism and Religion-Making (Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion),
New York: Oxford University Press, co-editor: Arvind-Pal S. Mandair.
2009
Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality (Routledge Sufi), London:
Routledge, co-editors: Ron Geaves, Gritt M. Klinkhammer.
Articles and Book Chapters
Forthcoming: “'Our Alevi and Kurdish Brothers' - Some Remarks on Nationalism and Minority
Politics in Turkey,” Usoyan, K. (ed.), Religious Minorities in Kurdistan, Harrasowitz
2014.
“From Crypto-Christians to Shaman Turks: Modern Discourses on the Alevis of
Turkey,” Reichmuth, S. et al. (ed.): Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism
and Colonialism: A Sourcebook, 2013.
2013
“Was ist das Alevitum? Die aktuelle Diskussion und historische Traditionslinien,”
Langer, R.; Ağuiçenoğlu, H.; Karolewski, J.; Motika, R. (ed.): Ocak und Dedelik:
Institutionen religiösen Spezialistentums bei den Aleviten. Frankfurt am Main [et al.]:
Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften 2013, 13-35.
“Der moderne dede: Religiöse Autorität im Wandel,” Langer, R.; Ağuiçenoğlu, H.;
Karolewski, J.; Motika, R. (ed.): Ocak und Dedelik: Institutionen religiösen
Spezialistentums bei den Aleviten. Frankfurt am Main [et al.]: Peter Lang, Europäischer
Verlag der Wissenschaften 2013, 241-266.
2012
“Fuad Köprülü'nün Çalışmalarında 'Heterodoks İslam',” Taştan, Y. K. (ed.): Mehmet
Fuat Köprülü. Ankara: T. C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 345-356.
“Fuad Köprülü'nün Tarihyazısına Milliyetçiliğin Etkisi,” Taştan, Y. K. (ed.): Mehmet
Fuat Köprülü. Ankara: T. C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 207-218.
Articles and Book Chapters (continued)
2011
Oxford
“Making Religion Through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish Alevism,”
Markus Dressler, Arvind-Pal S. Mandair (eds.), Secularism and Religion-Making,
University Press, 187-208.
“Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the Postsecular,” Markus Dressler,
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair (eds.), Secularism and Religion-Making, Oxford University
Press, 3-36; co-author: Arvind-Pal S. Mandair.
“The Religio-Secular Continuum. Reflections on the Religious Dimensions of Turkish
Secularism.” Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Robert A. Yelle, and Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
(eds.), After Secular Law, Stanford University Press, 221-241.
2010
“How to Conceptualize Inner-Islamic Plurality/Difference: ‘Heterodoxy’ and
‘Syncretism’ in the Writings of Mehmet F. Köprülü (1890-1966),” British Journal for
Middle Eastern Studies 37.3: 241-260.
“Between Legalist Exclusivism and Mysticist Universalism. Contested Sufi Muslim
Identities in New York,” Muslim World 100.4: 431-451.
“Public/Private Distinctions, the Alevi Question, and the Headscarf. Turkish Secularism
Revisited,” Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Linell Cady (eds.), Comparative Secularisms in a
Global Age, Palgrave, 121-142.
“Mehmed Fuad Köprülü'nün Çalışmalarında Bektaşilik ve Aleviliğin Yeri,” Gıyasettin
Aytaş, Yusuf Doğan, Deren B. Akman Yeşilel (eds.), Hacı Bektaş Velî'nin Tarihsel
Kimliği, Düşünce Sistemi ve Etkileri, Ankara: Hazar Reklam, 87-92.
2009
“Pluralism and Authenticity: Sufi Paths in post-9/11 New York”, Markus Dressler, Ron
Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer (eds.), Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and
Locality, London: Routledge, 77-97.
“Introduction,” Markus Dressler, Ron Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer (eds.), Sufis in
Western Society: Global Networking and Locality, London: Routledge; co-authors: Ron
Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer, 1-12.
“Irène Mélikoff’s Legacy: Some Remarks on Methodology.” Türk Kültürü ve Hacı
Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi 52.3: 13-20.
2008
“Religio-Secular Metamorphoses: The Re-Making of Modern Alevism,” Journal of the
American Academy of Religion 76/2: 280-311.
“Turkey,” Andrew Rippin (ed.): The Islamic World, London: Routledge, 53-69.
2006
“The Modern Dede: Changing Parameters for Religious Authorities in Contemporary
Turkish Alevism,” Gudrun Krämer, and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.): Speaking for Islam.
Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies. Leiden et al.: Brill, pp. 269-294; French
translation published as “Le dede moderne: évolution des paramètres de l’autorité
religieuse de l’Alévisme dans la Turquie contemporaine,” Sociologie et Sociétés 38
(special issue: Religion et politique dans les sociétés contemporaines): 69-92.
Articles and Book Chapters (continued)
2005
“Inventing Orthodoxy: Competing Claims for Authority and Legitimacy in the
Ottoman-Safavid Conflict,” Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski (eds.):
Legitimizing the Order. The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power. Leiden et al.: Brill, pp.
151-173.
2003
“Turkish Alevi Poetry in the Twentieth Century: The Fusion of Political and Religious
Identities,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 23 (special issue: Literature and the
Sacred): 109-154.
“Alevi Geleneğin Dinsel Boyutları,” İbrahim Bahadır (ed.): Bilgi Toplumunda Alevilik.
Bielefeld: Bielefeld Alevi Kültür Merkezi, pp. 19-43.
2003
“Einblicke in den osmanisch-türkischen Islam. Eine Religionsgeschichte,” Johannes
Kalter and Irene Schönberger (eds.), Der lange Weg der Türken. 1500 Jahre türkischer
Kultur. Stuttgart: Lindenmuseum, pp. 238-250.
2001
“Die kemalistischen Reformen und die Aleviten,” Ismail Engin and Erhard Franz (eds.):
Aleviler / Alewiten, Vol. 3: Siyaset ve Örgütler / Politik und Organisationen. Hamburg:
Deutsches Orient Institut, pp. 15-34.
“Die türkische Zivilreligion und die NATO,” Werner Kremp and Berthold Meyer (eds.):
Religion und Zivilreligion im Atlantischen Bündnis (Atlantische Texte 14). Trier:
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 321-335.
“‘Die bedrohte Republik’. Von der Niederschlagung des Scheich-Said-Aufstands 1925
bis zur Schließung der Tugendpartei,” SPIRITA. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
F15-F18.
“Gibt es einen islamischen Säkularismus? Zur alevitischen Kemalismus-Interpretation
in der Türkei, Dietrich Reetz (ed.): Sendungsbewußtsein oder Eigennutz: Zu Motivation
und Selbstverständnis islamischer Mobilisierung (Studien/Zentrum Moderner Orient;
Bd. 14) Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, pp. 127-152.
1999
“Das ‘Türkische Muslimentum’. Die Türkei zwischen ethnischer und religiöser Identität
im Spiegel der Türkischen Presse,” Istanbuler Almanach 3: 48-59.
1998
“Der Teilnachlaß von Karl Bornhausen,” Journal for the History of Modern Theology/
Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 5: 248-273.
Encyclopedia Entries
2012
“Dede,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed., 2012-1, Leiden et al.: Brill, 119-121.
2010
“Bektashis (Bektashiye),” Gordon J. Melton and Martin Baumann (eds.): Religions of
the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Vol.1. Santa
Barbara: ABC-Clio (revised ed., first published in 2002).
2008
“Alevīs,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed., 2008-1, Leiden et al.: Brill, 93-121.
2006
“Sufismus,” Christoph Auffarth, Jutta Bernard, and Hubert Mohr (eds.): Religionen der
Welt, Stuttgart: Metzler, 267-271.
2005
“Sufism,” Kocku v. Stuckrad (ed.): The Brill Dictionary of Religion. Leiden et al.: Brill,
vol. 4, pp. 1818-1822.
Encyclopedia Entries (continued)
2005
“Sufismus in Deutschland,” (19971), in: Michael Klöcker and Udo Tworuschka (eds.):
Handbuch der Religionen. Kirchen und andere Glaubensgemeinschaften in
Deutschland, Munich: Olzog, IV-2, 11 pp. (rev. ed., co-authored by Ludwig
Schlessmann).
1997
“Sufismus in Deutschland,” in: Michael Klöcker and Udo Tworuschka (eds.):
Handbuch der Religionen. Kirchen und Glaubensgemeinschaften in Deutschland,
Landsberg: Olzog, IV-2, 10 pp.
Reviews
Forthcoming “Christopher Dole: Healing Secular Life. Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey,”
Anthropos 108.2 (2013).
2013
“Zain Abdullah: Black Mecca. The African Muslims of Harlem,” Islamic Africa 41:
128-132.
2010
“Rez. GA: M. Sökefeld (Hrsg.): Aleviten in Deutschland,” Geschichte Trasnational and
H-Soz-u-Kult.
Online:
http://geschichte-transnational.clioonline.net/rezensionen/id=11341.
2009
“Gilles Veinstein (ed.): Syncrétismes et hérésies dans l’orient Seldjoukide et Ottoman
(XIVe-XVIIIe siècle) Paris 2005,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41.1:
139f.
“Alev Çınar: Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey. Bodies, Places, and Time.
Minneapolis 2005,” Contemporary Islam 3.2: 201-203.
2008
“Hülya Küçük: The Role of the Bektashis in Turkey’s National Struggle. A Historical
and Critical Study (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
80). Leiden 2002,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 158.2:
473-479.
“Paul J. White, and Joost Jongerden (eds.): Turkey’s Alevi Enigma. A Comprehensive
Overview (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 88).
Leiden 2003,” Die Welt des Islams 48.1: 120-122.
2007
“Jamal Malik, and John Hinnels (eds.): Sufism in the West, Routledge 2005,” American
Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 24.3: 121-123.
2006
“Muammer Kaylan: The Kemalists. Islamic Revival and the Fate of Secular Turkey.
Amherst, NY 2005.” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23.4: 120-123.
2003
“Thomas Hase: Zivilreligion: Religionswissenschaftliche Überlegungen zu einem
theoretischen Konzept am Beispiel der USA (Religion in der Gesellschaft 9). Würzburg
2002,” Journal of Contemporary Religion 18.2: 246-250.
1999
“Günter Seufert: Politischer Islam in der Türkei - Islamismus als symbolische
Repräsentation einer sich modernisierenden muslimischen Gesellschaft (Beyruter Texte
und Studien 67). Stuttgart 1997,” Orient. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Orient-Instituts 40:
651f.
Reviews (continued)
1999
“Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, and Anke Otter-Beaujean (eds.):
Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East. Collected Papers of the
International Symposium “Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious
Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present” Berlin, 14-17 April 1995
(Studies in the History of Religions). Leiden 1997,” Orient. Zeitschrift des Deutschen
Orient-Instituts 40: 311-313.
1998
“Günter Seufert: Café Istanbul. Alltag, Religion und Politik in der modernen Türkei.
München 1997,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 02-19-1998 (Column: Politische Literatur:
“Identitätssuche in der Türkei. Der politische Islam als Kind der Moderne“).
1997
“Türkei Programm der Körber-Stiftung (ed.): Religion - ein deutsch-türkisches Tabu?,
Hamburg 1997,” Spirita. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 12, Nr.1: 34f.
“Udo Steinbach: Die Türkei im 20. Jahrhundert. Schwieriger Partner Europas.”
Bergisch Gladbach 1997,” Spirita. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 11, Nr.1: 41f.
1996
“Gilles Kepel: Allah im Westen. Die Demokratie und die islamische Herausforderung.
München 1996,” Spirita. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 10, Nr.2:
40f.
“Von Erlösern, Märtyrern und anderen Amerikanern. Bemerkungen zum Kinofilm
"Independence Day",” Spirita. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 10, Nr.2: 31f.
1995
“Karin Vorhoff: Zwischen Glaube, Nation und neuer Gemeinschaft. Alevitische
Identität
in der Gegenwart. Berlin 1995,” Spirita. Zeitschrift für
Religionswissenschaft 9, Nr.2: 45f.
Miscellaneous Publications
2013
“New Texts Out Now: Markus Dressler, Writing Religion. The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam
[interview
and
excerpt].
Jadaliyya,
June
19;
online
available
at
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12302/new-texts-out-now_markus-dresslerwriting-religion.
2011
“Religion-Making,“ The Immanent Frame. Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere,
October
26, co-authored by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair; online available at
http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/10/26/religion-making/.
“Alavi-garâei dar barâbare Sonni-garâeiye Dolate Sekular”, transl. Ali Kalirad, Mehrnâme
(Tehran), vol. 2, no. 11 (April-May): 69.
2008
July
“On Turkish Laicism,” The Immanent Frame. Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere,
30; online available at http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/07/30/onturkishlaicism/.
“The Rise and Fall of the AKP,” The Immanent Frame. Secularism, Religion, and the Public
Sphere, July 29; online available at http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/07/29/the-rise-and-fall-ofthe-akp/.
2007
“Aleviliği Tartışan Farklı Kitaplar,” Radikal Kitap, Dec. 14, pp. 29f.; online available at
http://www.radikal.com.tr/ek_haber.php?ek=ktp&haberno=7088.
“Turkey’s Minority Question and the EU,” Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst, no.5 (May): 1-4.
Miscellaneous Publications (continued)
2006
“Election
Polemics,”
The
Revealer,
Nov.
2.;
URL:
http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_002693.php.
2003
Islam (Pocket Thema). Berlin: Cornelsen Scriptor; co-author: Gritt M. Klinkhammer.
2002
“L’islam dans la sphère publique: nouveaux enjeux au Canada et en Europe,” La Parole
Métèque. Le magazine du renouveau féministe 40 (March, special issue: Islams: quel Islam?):
44f.; co-authors Barbara Thériault, David Oullette.
1997 “Vom Ulu Önder zum Mehdi - Zur Darstellung Mustafa Kemals in den alevitischen
Zeitschriften Cem und Nefes,” Orient-Institut Istanbul, (Pera-Blätter Nr. 7), 27 pp.