Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 245 pages) |
Series |
AAR religion, culture, and history |
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Religion, culture, and history series.
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Contents |
Preface: excursions to the margins -- Introduction: Islam, secularism, and civil society in the Turkish present -- 1. Varieties of Islam in the Turkish public sphere -- 2. Confessional pluralism and the civil society effect -- 3. Counterpublic spatial practices of Muslim civil society -- 4. Temporal practices of Muslim civil society, or the dilemmas of historicism -- 5. Fashioning the neo-Ottoman chronotope of Istanbul -- Afterword: a panorama of Muslim civil society in miniature -- Bibliography |
Summary |
In contemporary Turkey, a plethora of Muslim NGOs, spanning the sectarian divide between Sunni and Alevi Muslims, has called into question statist sovereignty over Islam. Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey is an ethnographic study of these institutions and their distinctive, nongovernmental politics of religious freedom |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2017) |
Subject |
Islam and secularism -- Turkey -- 21st century
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Islam -- Turkey -- 21st century
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Secularism -- Turkey -- 21st century
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Islam and civil society -- Turkey -- 21st century
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Religion and politics -- Turkey -- 21st century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Islam.
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Islam and civil society.
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Islam and secularism.
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Religion and politics.
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Secularism.
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Turkey.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2016033635 |
ISBN |
9780190659004 |
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0190659009 |
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9780190658984 |
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0190658983 |
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