Editor’s Preface: Being an Alevi, Living Aleviness, Learning Alevism List of Contributors "Culturalism and Social Mobility"or An Alevi Village in Germany: initial considerations By David Shankland and Atila Çetin Blood, Gelin and Love: Changes in Patterns of Alliance in an Alevi Group By Benoit Fliche Alawism and Concealment: The Unclehood Tradition in the Nusayriye By Hüseyin Türk Alevi Theology From Shamanism to Humanism By Hege Irene Markussen Festivals and the Formation of Alevi Identity By Mark Soileau Alevism in the 1960s: Social Change and Mobilisation By Elise Massicard Alevis in Germany after the 11th of September: Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place? By Beatrice Hendrich Gypsies and Alevis: The Impossibility of Abdallar Identity? By Elin Strand and Adrian Marsh