Alevi Congregation Germany

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Alevi Congregation Germany
(AABF)
purpose Legal representation for Alevis in Germany, Federal Association
Chair: Hüseyin Mat (Federal Chairman), Ufuk Cakir (General Secretary), Müslüm Kaya (Chair of the Spiritual Council)
Establishment date: 1989
Number of members: approx. 500,000 members in 150 local congregations
Seat : Stolberger Strasse 317, 50933 Cologne
Website: www.alevi.com
AABF demonstration on May 1st, 2011 in Klagesmarkt , Hanover

The Alevi Congregation Germany ( Turkish : Almanya Alevi Birlikleri Federasyonu , abbr .: AABF) is the umbrella organization of the Alevi congregations in Germany. The federal chairman is Hüseyin Mat . It represents the organized in their Alevis, which is the second largest religious community after Sunni Islam within the religiously bound Turkish origin form migrants in Germany.

History and meaning

AABF banner in memory of the victims of the Sivas massacre

The association was founded in 1989 and launched a new program on March 31, 1998. The Alevi Congregation Germany, a registered association based in Cologne , is organized in state representations and municipalities at city and community level. It includes around 150 local churches in Germany.

The association is a member of the European Union of Alevi Congregations ( Avrupa Alevi Birlikleri Konfederasyonu ; abbreviation AABK). The youth is represented by the Association of Alevi Youth in Germany .

In 2012, the Alevi community in Germany joined the Coalition Umfairteilen on. In August 2013, Federal President Joachim Gauck paid tribute to the commitment of the Alevi community in Berlin.

The AABF provides appointed representatives at the German Islam Conference and the integration summit of the federal government .

aims

The goals include the revival of Alevism , the integration and participation of its members in German society and the provision of their own religious instruction. Alevi religious instruction was first approved in the 2006/2007 school year in Baden-Württemberg ; it is now available in a total of nine federal states.

Publications

Alevilerin Sesi ("Voice of the Alevis") is a monthly AABF magazine . In addition to Turkish texts, German and French contributions are also published. The articles deal with Alevism, the domestic political situation in Turkey and Germany, and Alevi association activities.

See also

literature

  • Ursula Spuler-Stegemann : Is the Alevi Congregation Germany eV a religious community? Religious studies report. Ed .: University of Marburg. Marburg 2003 ( InfoRel.ch [PDF; 498 kB ; accessed on August 21, 2016]).
  • Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi: From culture to religion. Alevi Identity Politics in Germany . In: Max Planck Society (ed.): Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers (=  Working Paper . No. 84 ). 2006, ISSN  1615-4568 ( eth.mpg.de [PDF; 296 kB ; accessed on August 21, 2016]).
  • Handan Aksünger: Beyond the command of silence. Alevi migrant organizations and civil society integration in Germany and the Netherlands . 1st edition. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-7883-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Martin Sökefeld: Alevis in Germany . Identity processes of a religious community in the diaspora. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-0822-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Friedmann Eißler (Ed.): Alevis in Germany. Basics, change processes, perspectives , EZW texts 211, 3rd, revised edition, Berlin 2017 ( ezw-berlin.de ; accessed on February 8, 2020).

Web links

Commons : Alevi Congregation Germany  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ REMID (2013)
  2. ↑ Bonn Institute for Migration Research : Alevi Evening with Many Insights , February 5, 2014
  3. ^ BAMF: Muslim Life in Germany ( Memento of May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (2009); Page 314 states "between 480,000 and 552,000" - PDF, 6 MB
  4. ↑ umfairteilen.de: The support circle of the alliance ( Memento on 26 December 2012 at the Internet Archive ), accessed 1 January 2014
  5. ↑ alevi.com: Federal Executive Board visits Joachim Gauck's citizens' festival
  6. ↑ alevi.com: Alevi religious instruction : General

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