The edited volume Interdisciplinary Studies on Alevism aims to deepen our understanding of Alevism by incorporating methodologies and theoretical frameworks from multiple academic disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, religious studies, Islamic studies, gender studies, and linguistics, to examine the multifaceted nature of Alevi communities, their histories, religious practices, and socio-cultural dynamics. This broad scope allows the book to examine Alevism in its plurality and complexity, offering insights into its evolving role within both local and global contexts. This book brings together ten scholarly chapters that explore Alevism through an interdisciplinary lens and offer a unique contribution to Alevi studies. Each chapter is written by a scholar specializing in their respective fields, ensuring that the book offers both depth and breadth in its analysis. This collection will appeal to both scholars and students across Alevi studies and the social sciences and humanities, as well as readers interested in religion, identity, migration, and gender in contemporary societies.

Deniz Coşan Eke (Dr. phil.) was a postdoctoral researcher in Alevi Theological Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, from 2020 to 2025. She holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She has been a visiting scholar working on transnational migration, religious groups, and interreligious dialogue at the University of Roskilde, the University of Westminster, and the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include migration, religious transnationalism, religious diversity, interreligious dialogue, gender and women’s studies, emotions, Alevi communities, and Alevism. She is the author of The Changing Gender Roles in the Perception of Two Cohorts: A Case Study in Ankara (VDM Verlag, 2009) and The Changing Leadership Roles of ‘Dedes’ in the Alevi Movement: Ethnographic Studies on Alevi Associations in Turkey and Germany from the 1990s to the Present (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2021). She is co-editor of Religion, Religious Groups and Migration (Transnational Press, London, 2023) and the special issue Entangled Ethnographies on Alevism in Turkey and Beyond published in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN). She also was as a Management Committee member of the EU-funded COST Action project Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity (COREnet).