This chapter builds on the anxieties and challenges that Ali and many other Alevis face with regard to cemevis, their centres of religious and cultural activity in Turkey. It also looks at the reconstitution of Alevism as secular religion through three related developments: the emergence of a transnational Alevist politics of recognition, increased interaction with Sunni Islam mediated and embodied by state institutions, and the temporospatial dynamics of urbanization. And argues secularism in its vernacular form precedes Alevism as religion and is constitutive of it. The chapter suggests that urbanization is not necessarily conducive to secularization understood as the decline of religion, but, as the Alevist politics of place shows, it can lead to the secularized formation of religion as a formula: script-based belief, religious personnel with codified knowledge, and standardized forms of worship neatly confined to distinct places of worship. Keywords:Alevis; Islam; Religion; Secularism; Turkey; worship