Cem worship in Alevism

Cem is a form of worship which consist of religious, social, legal, cultural and literary form of Alevi societies and revealed these aspects in the setting of performance as deictic. Therefore, his versalite worship is not just the repetation of certain rituals, but it is considered as a place of training perfect human being. Cem which changes its purpose, its place, its time and many enviorenmantal factors have a dynamic structure not static. Folk Literature Outputs should be evaluated not only as a literary but also depending on enviromental variables such as performer, participants, time and place. Exhibitionist performance theory primarily makes an examination on the basis of remark that all outputs of people-oriented will vary depending on time, place, culture, language, the individual psychological and social features. CEM, the most important area of performance that reflects the essence of the Alevi faith, is a presentation which is made certain time and place with certain rules presented by officials known as The Twelve Imams. Considering the fact that this worship is a cultural output of completely performance-oriented, traditional and oral, the performance theory will be seen to have more enlightening form about investigating Alevi culture and its worships. In our research, we found the opportunity to examine over fifteen different cem examples which were made comparisons by using scientific method of the performance theory. The changes occurred depending on the region, the place, the participants and the performers have been identified.