Secular state and religious society : two forces in play in Turkey
Berna Turam (Editor)
Ever since the highly controversial appointment of a pious president in the secular Turkish Republic in 2007, both the Turkish state and society have been deeply divided over the issue of piety and Muslim politics. The essays in this book reveal and analyze specific affinities between the types of secularisms and pieties in a nation-state, by highlighting that thesecular state and the devout are neither friends nor strangers. Through ongoing interactions between the state and pious actors, state secularism and religious society mutually form, inform and transform each other. The contributors use fresh data and a variety of primary research methods to explore all the facets of the state-society relationship. They consider the implications of their findings for freedom and democracy in the state, while challenging impartial and reductionist views that represent dynamic politics as a zero-sum game, such as "Islamization" of the market and the state, or "secularization" of Islam and the end of Islamic politics
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
9781137010643, 9781306092517, 9781349341658, 1137010649, 1306092515, 1349341657
860838326
Introduction: Secular State and Pious Muslims: Neither Rivals nor Allies for Life. Berna Turam
1. The Dynamic Nature of Educational Policies and Turkish Nation-Building: Where does Religion Fit in? / Yesim Bayar
2. Islam, Nation-State, and the Military: A Discussion of Secularism in Turkey / Sinem Gurbey
3. Secularists as the Saviors of Islam: Rearticulation of Secularism and the Freedom of Conscience in Turkey (1950) / Umut Azak
4. Does Secularism Face a Serious Threat in Turkey? / Metin Heper
5. Christian and Turkish: Secularist Fears of a Converted Nation / Esra Ozyurek
6. Market Oriented Post-Islamism in Turkey / Tugrul Keskin
7. Conflict, Democratic Reform, and Big Business: Factors Shaping the Economic Elite's Position for Change / Devrim Yavuz
8. Religious Actors in a Democratic Civil Society: Turkey and Israel Compared / Aviad Rubin
Afterword / Murat Gunes Tezcur
Based on a conference held in Amherst, Mass. and Hampshire College