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Religiosity and the construction of death in Turkish death announcements, 1970-2009

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.contributor.kuauthorErgin, Murat
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T22:49:37Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractDeath and rituals performed after death reflect and reproduce social distinctions despite death's popular reputation as a great leveler. This study examines expressions of religiosity and constructions of death in Turkish death announcements, paying particular attention to gendered, ethnic, and temporal variations as well as markers of status and cultural distinction. Death announcements in Turkey occupy a liminal position between obituaries and death notices: Unlike obituaries, no editorial decisions are involved in their publications. However, unlike death notices, Turkish announcements are venues for expressions of culturally scripted individual decisions. These large and decentralized collections of private decisions display rigid genre characteristics involving formulaic phrases but also change over time to reflect social, cultural, and economic changes in Turkish society. The present study focuses on a sample (N = 2,812) of death announcements in a major Turkish daily newspaper (Hurriyet) from 1970 to 2009. Results show that death announcements in Turkey increasingly rely on an emotional tone of loss and bereavement that replace constructions of death in a more detached and distant language and that religious and secular preferences in the language of announcements are an important domain in which cultural battles are fought and the participation patterns of new middle classes are negotiated.
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dc.description.issue3
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume36
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07481187.2011.553339
dc.identifier.eissn1091-7683
dc.identifier.issn0748-1187
dc.identifier.quartileQ1
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2011.553339
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/6536
dc.identifier.wos301722200004
dc.keywordsSpirituality
dc.keywordsBereavement
dc.keywordsGrief
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofDeath Studies
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectSocial issues
dc.subjectSocial sciences
dc.subjectBiomedical
dc.titleReligiosity and the construction of death in Turkish death announcements, 1970-2009
dc.typeJournal Article
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