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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2014

Some Meanings of the Islamic Call to Prayer: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Some Turkish Narratives

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The Islamic call to prayer has given rise to many stories about such topics as the beautiful voice, the power to convert, and the idealized nation-state. This study examined materials collected by an ethnomusicologist in Turkey as a means of inquiry into aspects of cultural identity. Qualitative research models were employed to explore constructs that underlie human behavior. In this study, the field data of the ethnomusicologist were submitted to multiple psychological analyses in an effort to refine understanding of content and to explore the usefulness of clinical psychological methods in ethno-cultural research. Individuals, scholarly collections, and media sources provided narratives that were analyzed using Thematic Apperception Test methodology based in psychodynamic theory. Data evaluation included efforts to address reliability. Conclusions were based on specific score outcomes, as well as by the application of qualitative narrative analysis to clinically derived thematic content. Results were complex and supportive of the materials and the methods as allowing articulation of underlying meanings of cultural/religious narrative materials as windows into ethnic identity, beliefs, and concerns. The research process also illustrated the difficulties of work with such materials and with methods that do not lend themselves to reductionistic approaches. Advantages and disadvantages of cross disciplinary research were detailed. Findings supported the importance of the aesthetic, theological, heroic, and political content as illustrative of aspects of Turkish identity along with features of miraculous and clinically interesting modes of communication with deity often seen across cultures.
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hal-01111087 , version 1 (02-02-2015)

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Eve Mcpherson, Sandra Mcpherson, Roger Bouchard, Robert Heath Meeks. Some Meanings of the Islamic Call to Prayer: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Some Turkish Narratives. Narrative Matters 2014: Narrative Knowing/ Récit et Savoir, Sylvie Patron, Brian Schiff, Jun 2014, Paris, France. ⟨hal-01111087⟩

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