%0 Journal Article %T Purity in the Context of the Rite of Passage %A Prof. Dr. Fuzuli Bayat %J Journal of International Social Research %D 2009 %I Journal of International Social Research %X Purity is the passage of the state which is been appeared a phenomenon until mythological epoch to middle age in the Turkish cultural ecological system. But purity is not only passage of the state also is a possessive of secret knowledge and mediator in different worlds. In this article was researched a function of purity from the ancient age - shamanism to middle age - sophism popular. The cod of purity of our culture was researched in mythological and tasawwuf¡¯s materials which are been gathered from different sources %K purity %K rite of passage %K change of state %U http://www.sosyalarastirmalar.com/cilt2/sayi9pdf/bayat_fuzuli.pdf