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Religion and Politics in Turkey
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Turkish Islamic Exceptionalism Yesterday and Today: Continuity, Rupture and Reconstruction in Operational Codes
- 2. Islam and Democracy in Turkey
- 3. Explaining Religious Politics at the Crossroad: AKP-SP
- 4. Religion, Transnationalism and Turks in Europe
- 5. The Justice and Development Party Government and the Military in Turkey
- 6. The Mystery of the Türban: Participation or Revolt?
- 7. An Exercise in Denominational Geography in Search of Ottoman Alevis
- 8. Political Preferences of the Turkish Electorate: Reflections of an Alevi–Sunni Cleavage
- 9. Christian Democracy and the AKP: Parallels and Contrasts
- 10. Conclusion
- Index