Cultural transmission in the context of urbanization in Alevi̇ communities who continue to three cem houses

Alevism which had not been discussed much until 1990?s, has become more visible today. First important change has come to light with Alevism Manifesto which was launched abroad in 1989, and this has been served as a model for Alevis to be organized in Turkey. With this era which is referred to as Alevi Renaissance, Alevis who had migrated to cities by 1960 have established their own power locations with constitutions such as foundations and associations. These locations have been considered as city type cem houses in this study. Social-cultural-economic capitals which were developed in these places have become the flapping flag of the visibility of Alevis in the city as Alevis? identity locations. Now, recognizing cem houses as places of worship, explaining Alevism in a more detailed way in the national education books and the requirement of establishing an Alevi center within the Department of Religious Affairs have been discussed with the assumption of Alevi modernization. Some Alevi people?s staying at the same neighborhood-hometown-building with the culture of citizenship and launching a cem house where the population is intense served as a model for discourses developed over power locations and getting ghettoized. The perception that these structures created in Alevi communities that are carried out in this study have been discussed with rituals and community structuring. This ethnographic based study is based on the assumption of urbanization and modernization of Alevi communities who go to cem houses and interpretation of socio-cultural-economic and religious capitals over city type power locations cem houses. Anthropological field research has been carried out between October 2010 and March 2013. Research was conducted in Garip Dede, İkitelli, and Acısu Cem Houses. Contributed observation has been conducted, deep meetings and interviews have been organized. The theoretical explanations of structuralism, structural-functionalist, symbolic and anthropology of religion have been discussed. Key words: Alevi, anthropology, social change, rites of passage, cem house, religion, migration, urbanization, modernization, getting ghettoized, power locations.