Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Traditional Turkish religious life has developed by having interwined with social, political, economic and environmental conditions in archaic periods of Turks. All of these elements has influenced and shaped each other. It would not be true to evaluate original religions of Turks within one of the systems that put forwarded by theorists in religion because old Turkish belief has appeared as heroic ancestors’ cult and nature beliefs and reached high level by means of Tengri that is concept of supreme being. However it was, in time, exposed to influence of different mystic-magic systems (especially Shamanism) and other religions
DOI: 10.21547/jss.256835
Author: Selim KARAKAŞ
Institution: Giresun University
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2148506550