SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSFORMATION OF SACRED SPACES: A CASE STUDY ON MERSIN/ASHAB-I KEHF CAVE

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Religion, an institution that needs to be discussed and analyzed due to its important position in human history, produces and reproduces social dynamics. Sacred spaces, which are among the places where religion is performed, are places where these dynamics and relations are reproduced. Just like the concept of "space" itself, sacred spaces are not self-exclusive, physical structures. They are produced, changed, and transformed economically, politically, and socially. How they emerge, how they change, how they are shared by different religious groups impacts the historical transformation of space, and how dominant religious groups impact the production and use of space are all important. In this context, this thesis, based on a field study that examines the transformation around the Tarsus Ashab-ı Kehf Cave and its compound, focuses on how controversions between different religious and social groups are negotiated through the transformation of a sacred space. The fact that the chosen site is a shrine where Orthodox Islam forbids some religious practices which are embedded folk culture will reveal one of the unique aspects of the study.

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sacred space, shrine, the transformation of space, religioscape, Ashab-ı Kehf

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D. Elveren, “SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSFORMATION OF SACRED SPACES: A CASE STUDY ON MERSIN/ASHAB-I KEHF CAVE,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.