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Title	Editorial of Special Issue of National Identities: Alevism as an ethno-religious identity: Contested boundaries
Type	Edited issue
Authors	Jenkins, C., Aydin, S. and Cetin, U.
Abstract	No abstract for editorial but this is the opening paragraph: This special issue on Alevism and trans/national Alevi identity critically engages with the relationship between religion, ethnicity and national identity. The core issues are as follows: • how ethnicity and religion are conceptualised for a relatively invisible ethnic group in different national contexts; • how religion and ethnicity intersect when Alevism is both a faith and an ethnic identity, especially when conceptions of that identity are contested; • how identity is shaped through state policies within different national policy contexts and how etic definitions of minority communities are constructed by the state or other agencies with the power to impose them on the community in contrast to the emic or self-definitions of Aleviness from within the Alevi community; • how despite the fragmented, heterogeneous nature of Alevi communities, there is also a sense of a single, transnational imaginary community, at least for the purposes of political assimilation/integration and activism; • how education and other arenas of political, religious and cultural engagement at local, national and transnational levels create the possibilities, both positively and negatively, for future action/policy to situate minority ethnic communities.
Keywords	Alevism, transnational identity, religion, ethnicity
Journal	National Identities
Journal citation	20 (1), pp. 1-7
ISSN	1460-8944
Year	2018
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Accepted author manuscript	Editorial final.pdf
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2016.1244934
Published online	16 Jul 2017
Published	16 Jul 2017
Published in print	2018
Funder	BA (British Academy)

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