TÜRK SÖZLÜ ANLATI GELENEĞİNDE HIRİSTİYAN İMAJI
CHRISTIAN IMAGE IN TURKISH ORAL NARRATIVE TRADITION

Summary/Abstract: In this study, the data about the image of Christianity was determined and evaluated from the examples chosen from the legend, religious legend, epic, folk story and jokes which are the oral narrative types of Turkish society. Christian image is dealt with its body, place, moral qualities, and the relationship between the main heroes in the narratives and discussed through the characteristics of the image and the functions undertaken in the narrative. It can be said that the Christian image finds its place in the Turkish narrative tradition more gloriously than the images of otherness that can be included in other religious clusters. In addition, it is possible to say that the image in question is concentrated especially in examples where the theme of conflict is intensively studied, such as the epic, and in the genres such as the Religious legend, which becomes evident for the organization of religious identity. It can be said that the pejorative qualities of the Christian image, which is regarded as dreadful and dangerous in connection with symbolic pollution, contribute to the positioning of the struggle that the producer and consumer of the narratives will engage with the opposing group on a legitimate basis. Parallel to this, it can be added that the Christian image in the Turkish narrative tradition is instrumentalized in terms of showing ideas about the positive qualities of Muslims.

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