Söz ve Ötesi: Söz, Müzik, Ritüel İlişkisine Ontolojik (Kozmik) Bir Yaklaşım.

Religious rituals are historical events performed in certain forms at certain times. There is a distinction between religious rituals guiding practice with their event character and religious and philosophical meta-narratives positioning rituals mentally/ideologically. This distinction also leads to some ambiguities regarding the meaning of rituals. Since Ancient/primitive thought considered human existence within the whole (cosmos), it interpreted the ritual as a representation of cosmology. This wholeness has made the experience of boundaries, both within and beyond human limits, visible at its most fundamental level. From this perspective, ritual has dimensions such as formation, deformation, and transformation as a process of delineating boundaries and then transcending them. In this article, we will emphasize that ritual, in its event form, provides an opportunity for individuals to understand and transform themselves by considering various dimensions of human existence. In this context, we will discuss different aspects of the Mawlid, Alawi samah rituals, and the Mawlawi sama ceremony in Turkish-Islamic culture. We will explain how participants in the Mawlid ritual undergo a transformation process through the narrative of supernatural. In Alawi samah, we will focus on the ritual as a spatial representation of bodily formation. In comparison to the local-universal dichotomy of Alawi samah, we will draw attention to the symbolic formation of the city concept in the Mawlawi samah ceremony. In the Mawlawi ceremony, we will attempt to analyze the mutual interaction between the city and the ritual as a symbolic manifestation of cosmic unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]