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Author Hart, Kimberly, 1967- author

Title And Then We Work for God : Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey / Kimberly Hart
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013
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Contents Introduction : competing claims to religious authority -- Secular time and the individual -- Islamic time and the village -- Good deeds and the moral economy -- Constructing Islam : mosques, men, and the state -- Women's traditions and innovations -- Ritual purification and the pernicious danger of culture -- Secular and spiritual routes to knowledge -- An entrepreneurial 'neo-tarikat' and Islamic education -- Dealing with the secular world : a trip to the beach
Summary Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages, this book considers rural spiritual practices and describes a living, evolving Sunni Islam, influenced and transformed by local and national sources of religious orthodoxy. Drawing on a decade of research, Kimberly Hart shows how religion is not an abstract set of principles, but a comp
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Islam -- Turkey -- Customs and practices
Islam and culture -- Turkey
Rural population -- Turkey
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Islam and culture
Islam -- Customs and practices
Rural population
SUBJECT Turkey -- Religious life and customs
Subject Turkey
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013013864
ISBN 0804786682
9780804786683