The passive maintainers of cultural boundaries, women: The sample of Viransheir Yezidis

In this study, firstly, a general framework about sosyology of religion in Turkey and in the world is going to be given and the ideas about the Yazidi religion are going to be reassessed. The role that is given to women in Yazidi belief is going to handle starting from Yazidi genesis and through the effect of the Yazidi belief on women?s position in the organization of community. Then, it?s going to be dealed that religion is sometimes a determining factor in the society, but additionally, in daily life it?s reinterpretated in various ways in course of time. That?s it open to change and changes in itself. In this study, it?s argued that in the sample of Yazidis of Viranshehir, alongside of the religous belief itself, circumstances arised from being a minority community also are signifanctly important in determination of women?s social position.Women play a critic role in the continuity of the social organization based on Yazidi religion and in the transmission of the community culture, in general. That critic role that women have in a community which faces with disappearance results in much more control over them and restricts their movement area. This situation makes them more passive and creates serious barriers for them on the way of being subject in the society and in their own life. This study is going to examine these points in detail.