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MASS MEDIA AND THE REPULSIVE ALLURE OF RELIGIOUS HEALING: THE CINCI HOCA IN TURKISH MODERNITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2006

Christopher Dole
Christopher Dole
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. 01002, USA; e-mail: cdole@amherst.edu.
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Abstract

[Fade in from commercial, sonorous male voice advertising the evening news.]

Once again a cinci hoca, once again a sexual harassing…

Recently in our country, this exorcizing of spirits, witchcraft, fortune-telling, and mediumship, which are all products of primitive, magical thought, have been spreading like an epidemic. For years, either knowingly or unknowingly, they have been given extensive advertisement in newspapers and on television stations that seek to increase their circulation with dramatic news.

—Dr. Orhan Öztürk, Cumhuriyet, 1997

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ARTICLES
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 31 - 54
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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