Sociology Of Religion In Turkey

Author : Zuhal Ağılkaya Şahin,Asım Yapıcı,Sarah Demmrich
Publisher : Çamlıca Yayınları
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786258427042

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Sociology of Religion in Turkey by Zuhal Ağılkaya Şahin,Asım Yapıcı,Sarah Demmrich Pdf

I find in this volume an admirable mix of empirical material – on, for example, religious socialization and perceptions of gender – and reflective pieces, which interrogate the place of religion in Turkish society. Key in this respect is the fact that Turkey is not simply a Muslim society but a distinctive one, not least in terms of the functional differentiation of the modern republic and its consequent effect on religion – a situation that offers a unique challenge to sociological enquiry. The book concludes with a series of chapters that deal with the particularities of the modernization process in Turkey and the tensions (social, cultural and political) that have emerged as the modern state developed – a stage by stage process. Prof. Grace Davie, University of Exeter, Great Britain

Author : Zuhâl Ağilkaya-Şahin,Asım Yapıcı,Sarah Demmrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : 6258427014

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Sociology of Religion in Turkey by Zuhâl Ağilkaya-Şahin,Asım Yapıcı,Sarah Demmrich Pdf

Author : Haldun Gülalp,Günter Seufert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136231667

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Religion, Identity and Politics by Haldun Gülalp,Günter Seufert Pdf

German–Turkish relations, which have a long history and generally unrecognized depth, have rarely been examined as mutually formative processes. Isolated instances of influence have been examined in detail, but the historical and still ongoing processes of mutual interaction have rarely been seriously considered. The ruling assumption has been that Germany may have an impact on Turkey, but not the other way around. Religion, Identity and Politics examines this mutual interaction, specifically with regard to religious identities and institutions. It opposes the commonly held assumption that Europe is the abode of secularism and enlightenment, while the lands of Islam are the realm of backwardness and fundamentalism. Both historically and contemporarily, Germany has treated religion as a core aspect of communal and civilizational identity and framed its institutions accordingly; the book explores how there has been, and continues to be, a mutual exchange in this regard between Germany and both the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. The authors show that the definition of identity and regulation of communities have been explicitly based on religion until the early and since the late twentieth century; the period in between– the age of secular nationalism– which has always been treated as the norm, now appears more clearly as an exception. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics, history and religion.

Author : Massimo Rosati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317024910

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The Making of a Postsecular Society by Massimo Rosati Pdf

Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies. Neo-Durkheimian categories are applied to the case of Turkey, which in recent years has shifted from a strong Republican and Kemalist view of secularism to a more Anglo-Saxon perspective. Turkish society thus constitutes an interesting case that blurs modernist distinctions between the secular and the religious and which could be described as ’postsecular’. Presenting three symbolic case studies - the enduring image of the founder of the Republic Atatürk, the contested site of Ayasofia, and the remembering and commemoration of the murdered journalist Hrant Dink - The Making of a Postsecular Society analyses the cultural relationship that the modern Republic has always had with Europe, considering the possible implications of the Turkish model of secularism for a specifically European self-understanding of modernity. Based on a rigorous construction of theoretical categories and on a close scrutiny of the common challenges confronting Europe and its Turkish neighbour long considered ’other’ with regard to the accommodation of religious difference, this book sheds light on the possibilities for Europe to find new ways of arranging the relationship between the secular and the religious. As such, it will appeal to scholars of social theory, the sociology of religion, secularisation and religious difference, and social change.

Author : Ali Bardakoğlu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UOM:39015067832272

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Religion and Society by Ali Bardakoğlu Pdf

Author : B. Turam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137010643

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Secular State and Religious Society by B. Turam Pdf

On the basis of original, empirically rich, and theoretically sound social research, the chapters in this volume reveal and analyze the complex relations between the secular government of Turkey and the religious persons and society within the Turkish state.

Author : John Valk,Halis Albayrak,Mualla Selçuk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319667515

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An Islamic Worldview from Turkey by John Valk,Halis Albayrak,Mualla Selçuk Pdf

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview. It asks challenging questions of far-reaching consequence, addressing matters such as the Qur’an and revelation; rituals and symbols embraced; nature of God, of humans, and of our knowing; dignity of the human, sacredness of life, and more. It precludes easy, prescribed answers, preferring instead thoughtful reflection on two basic questions: What does it mean to love God? What does it mean to be a good person? Carefully crafted responses are presented by a group of scholars from Qur’an Studies, Worldview Studies, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies and Religious Education. It uncovers a dynamic understanding of Islam; one that meets challenges of the present, counters harsh criticisms, and breathes new life into a rich and longstanding tradition that continues to impact the lives of billions of people around the world.

Author : Mehmet Bardakci,Annette Freyberg-Inan,Christoph Giesel,Olaf Leisse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137270269

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Religious Minorities in Turkey by Mehmet Bardakci,Annette Freyberg-Inan,Christoph Giesel,Olaf Leisse Pdf

This book considers the key issue of Turkey’s treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation. The expectations of Turkey’s EU and other international counterparts, as well as important domestic demands, have pushed Turkey to broaden the rights of religious and other minorities. More recently a turn towards autocratic government is rolling back some earlier achievements. This book shows how these broader processes affect the lives of three important religious groups in Turkey: the Alevi as a large Muslim community and the Christian communities of Armenians and Syriacs. Drawing on a wealth of original data and extensive fieldwork, the authors compare and explain improvements, set-backs, and lingering concerns for Turkey’s religious minorities and identify important challenges for Turkey’s future democratic development and European path. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of minority politics, contemporary Turkish politics, and religion and politics.

Author : Şerif Mardin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438411897

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Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey by Şerif Mardin Pdf

Author : Barry Rubin,Ali Çarkoglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136875397

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Religion and Politics in Turkey by Barry Rubin,Ali Çarkoglu Pdf

Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey. Policy mandates and electoral bases of the rising extreme right rely on potentially explosive social cleavages in the country. One such confrontation is between the secularist and pro-Islamist forces, which has always been one of the centrepieces of modern Turkish politics. The rise of pro-Islamist electoral forces from a marginal to an undeniably imposing position in Turkish electoral politics has led many to worry that a deep-rooted schism has come to the forefront of Turkish politics. The frontline of this secularist vs pro-Islamist confrontation is quite widespread ranging from a debate around the ban of turban and headscarves in universities to religious education in the country, from Islamic principles in the economy to Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle Eastern countries. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Turkish Studies.

Author : Chiara Maritato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836524

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Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey by Chiara Maritato Pdf

A fascinating ethnography of the Diyanet's women sessions in Istanbul illuminating the current reconfigurations of Islam in Turkey.

Author : B. Silverstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230117037

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Islam and Modernity in Turkey by B. Silverstein Pdf

In contrast to much of the Muslim world, a majority of Turks consider Islam to be primarily a matter of personal choice and private belief. How did such an arrangement come about? Moreover, most observant Muslims in Turkey do not see such a conception and practice of Islam as illegitimate. Why not? Islam and Modernity in Turkey addresses these questions through an ethnographic study of Islamic discourses and practices and their articulation with mass media in Turkey, against the background of late Ottoman and early Republican precedents. This ground-breaking book sheds new light on issues of commensurability and difference in culture, religion, and history, and reformulates our understanding of Islam, secularism, and public life in Turkey, the Muslim world, and Europe.

Author : Neslihan Cevik
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 134956723X

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Muslimism in Turkey and Beyond by Neslihan Cevik Pdf

This book identifies a new Islamic form in Turkey: Muslimism. Neither fundamentalism nor liberal religion, Muslimism engages modernity through Islamic categories and practices. This new form has implications for discussions of democracy and Islam in the region, similar movements across religious traditions, and social theory on religion.

Author : Umut Korkut,Hande Eslen-Ziya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315405360

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Politics and Gender Identity in Turkey by Umut Korkut,Hande Eslen-Ziya Pdf

The creation of Turkish nationhood, citizenship, economic transformation, the forceful removal of minorities and national homogenisation, gender rights, the position of armed forces in politics, and the political and economic integration of Kurdish minority in Turkish polity have all received major interest in academic and policy debates. The relationship between politics and religion in Turkey, originating from the early years of the Republicanism, has been central to many – if not all – of these issues. This book looks at how centralized religion has turned into a means of controlling and organizing the Turkish polity under the AKP (Justice and Development Party) governments by presenting the results from a study on Turkish hutbes (mosque sermons), analysing how their content relates to gender roles and identities. The book argues that the political domination of a secular state as an agency over religion has not suppressed, but transformed, religion into a political tool for the same agency to organise the polity and the society along its own ideological tenets. It looks at how this domination organises gender roles and identities to engender human capital to serve for a neoliberal economic developmentalism. The book then discusses the limits of this domination, reflecting on how its subjects position themselves between the politico-religious authority and their secular lives. Written in an accessible format, this book provides a fresh perspective on the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East. More broadly, it also sheds light on global moral politics and illiberalism and why it relates to gender, religion and economics.

Author : Christel Gärtner,Heidemarie Winkel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658332396

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Exploring Islam beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism by Christel Gärtner,Heidemarie Winkel Pdf

Islamic religion has become an object of political discourse in ways that also affects academic reflection; against this background this volume aims to provide a theoretically and empirically founded assessment of where social sciences currently stand with regard to Islam. For this purpose, the volume continues to develop the sociological knowledge of Islam that began in the 1980s. Given the Orientalism inherent in sociology, the volume focuses on Muslim knowledge systems and institutions, as well as the practice of Muslim religiosity in various social contexts stretching from Algeria and Morocco to Turkey.