Ambiguous Sanctuaries and Bektashi Propaganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10964765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F W Hasluck (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1914 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Pages | 94-119 |
| Publication date | 1914-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annual of the British School at Athens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0068-2454 • E-ISSN: 2045-2403 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0068245400009424 |
| OpenAlex | W2042882214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The stratification of cults at famous sanctuaries of the ancient world, reflected for the most part in their local mythology, has long been interpreted as evidence of the invasion of older by newer gods and religious systems. A religion carried by a conquering race or by a missionary priesthood to alien lands superimposes itself, by force or persuasion, on an indigenous cult: the process is expressed in mythological terms under the figure of a personal combat between the rival gods or of the ‘reception’ of the new god by the old. Eventually either one god or the other succumbs and disappears or is relegated to an inferior position; or, again, the two may be more or less completely identified and fused. Of the religions of antiquity it is seldom possible to do more than conjecture by what methods and processes these transitions were actually carried out. The paper which follows is an attempt to examine some phenomena of the superimposition of cult in the case of a modern Mahommedan sect—the Bektashi—acting on the sanctuaries of the mixed populations of Turkey and in particular on Christian saint-cults. So far as we can see, where Bektashism has gained ground at the expense of Christianity this has been accomplished without violence, either by processes analogous to that known to the ancient world as the ‘reception’ of the new god by the old, or simply by the identification of the two personalities
Ancient history · Art history · Christianity · Cult · Indigenous · Mythology · Persuasion · Pilgrimage · SAINT · Theology · Worship · Classics · History · Islamic Studies and History · Islamic Thought and Society Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2016 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |