Religious politics in Turkey : from the birth of the Republic to the AKP /
Since the elections of 2002, Erdogan's AKP has dominated the political scene in Turkey. This period has often been understood as a break from a 'secular' pattern of state-building. But in this book, Ceren Lord shows how Islamist mobilisation in Turkey has been facilitated from within...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge Middle East studies.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- How religious majoritarianism was institutionalised in the early Republic
- The struggle within the state: the Diyanet and Islamisation
- Shaping the nation: the Diyanetʹs interventions against Alevism and the elevation of Sunni Islam
- The expansion of the religious field in the multiparty era
- The Islamist movement in Turkey and the rise of the AKP
- The rise of the AKP and the struggle within and for the state since 2002.
