Islam in Modern Turkey : Religion, Politics and Literature in a Secular State

Islam in Modern Turkey: Religion, Politi

📁 Islam in Modern Turkey: Religion, Politics, and Literature in a Secular State

✍ Richard Tapper 📂 Library 📅 1991 🏛 I. B. Tauris & Company 🌐 English

When the Turkish republic was founded in 1923, secularism was adopted as one of the key principles of the new state, and religious expression was brought under strict government supervision. Republican ideology and its associated institutions came to dominate much of everyday life. Only after 1950,

An Islamic Worldview from Turkey: Religi

📁 An Islamic Worldview from Turkey: Religion in a Modern, Secular and Democratic State

✍ John Valk, Halis Albayrak, Mualla Selçuk 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

<p><p>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,

Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Kemalism

📁 Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Kemalism, Religion and the Nation State

✍ Umut Azak 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 I. B. Tauris 🌐 English

Kemal Ataturk's Republic of Turkey was set up in 1923 as a secular state, sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms followed. Islam was no longer the official religion of the state, the Sultanate was abolished and all Turkish citizens were declared equal without reference to religio

Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Kemalism

📁 Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Kemalism, Religion and the Nation State

✍ Umut Azak 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 I.B. Tauris 🌐 English

Kemal Ataturk's Republic of Turkey was set up in 1923 as a secular state, sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms followed. Islam was no longer the official religion of the state, the Sultanate was abolished and all Turkish citizens were declared equal without reference to religio

Nostalgia for the Modern: State Seculari

📁 Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

✍ Esra Özyürek 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Duke University Press Books 🌐 English

<div>As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the

Nostalgia for the Modern: State Seculari

📁 Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

✍ Esra Özyürek (editor); George Steinmetz (editor); Julia Adams (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Duke University Press 🌐 English

<div>An ethnographic analysis of the ways that, during the 1990s, Turkish citizens began to express nostalgia for the secularist and nationalist foundations of the Turkish Republic.</div>