Differentiation in the Types of Religious Status: Sheikhs, Mollas and Sayyids in Cizre Example

Abstract

In East and Southeast Anatolia, it is seen that the status and reputation of religious status types of sheikhs, mullahs and sayyids were interrupted by "mandatory / sudden modernization" project of the Republic and furthermore, modern education and Marxist movements stepped up this process. Through the example of Cizre, this study emphasizes how the charisma of the types of religious authorites became a routine and through which social motives and effects they suffered a loss of their status. The issue is important to understand the changes brought by "symbolic universe change" to corporate level as a result of maintenance of the universe devices not fulfilling their functions in the space of forced migration and "the problem of Ontological Security". People with "the problem of Ontological Security" have tended to seek an alternate universe due to the loss of representation and function in religious types of status. The study is supported by the interview technique of qualitative research methods.