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Secular State and Religious Society

Two Forces in Play in Turkey

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  • © 2012

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  1. Berna Turam
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Secular State and Pious Muslims: Neither Eternal Rivals nor Allies for Life

    • Berna Turam
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Dynamic Nature of Educational Policies and Turkish Nation-Building: Where Does Religion Fit in?

    • Yeşim Bayar
    Pages 19-38

  4. Islam, Nation-State, and the Military: A Discussion of Secularism in Turkey

    • Sinem Gürbey
    Pages 39-57

  5. Secularists as the Saviors of Islam: Rearticulation of Secularism and the Freedom of Conscience in Turkey (1950)

    • Umut Azak
    Pages 59-78

  6. Does Secularism Face a Serious Threat in Turkey?

    • Metin Heper
    Pages 79-94

  7. Christian and Turkish: Secularist Fears of a Converted Nation

    • Esra Özyürek
    Pages 95-119

  8. Market Oriented Post-lslamism in Turkey

    • Tuğrul Keskin
    Pages 121-142

  9. Conflict, Democratic Reform, and Big Business: Factors Shaping the Economic Elite’s Position for Change

    • Devrim Yavuz
    Pages 143-166

  10. Religious Actors in a Democratic Civil Society: Turkey and Israel Compared

    • Aviad Rubin
    Pages 167-193

  11. Afterword

    • Murat Güneş Tezcür
    Pages 195-205

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 207-224
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About this book

On the basis of original, empirically rich, and theoretically sound social research, the chapters in this volume reveal and analyze the complex relations between the secular government of Turkey and the religious persons and society within the Turkish state.

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"How do we account for the relationship between the secular state and pious society? Rather than viewing the two as mutually exclusive, the studies in this volume, built on the Turkish experience, skillfully illustrate how a secular state can engage and accommodate the exigencies of a religious society. The lesson may be highly instructive to the emerging democracies in the Middle East today.'

Asef Bayat, professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, University of Illinois

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BERNA TURAM Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University, USA.

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