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Author Walton, Jeremy F., 1977- author.

Title Muslim civil society and the politics of religious freedom in Turkey / Jeremy F. Walton
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 245 pages)
Series AAR religion, culture, and history
Religion, culture, and history series.
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
Islam -- Turkey -- 21st century
Secularism -- Turkey -- 21st century
Islam and civil society -- Turkey -- 21st century
Religion and politics -- Turkey -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Islam.
Islam and civil society.
Islam and secularism.
Religion and politics.
Secularism.
Turkey.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016033635
ISBN 9780190659004
0190659009
9780190658984
0190658983