Jeremy F. Walton (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious a

Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• AAR Religion, Culture, and History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780190658977
• ISBN-10: 0190658975
• Artikelnr.: 47868808

Autorenporträt

Jeremy F. Walton is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Study of Secularism and New Religiosities, CETREN Project, Georg August University of Gottingen.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* List of Abbreviations
* Acknowledgements
* Preface: Excursions to the Margins
* Introduction: Islam, Secularism, and Civil Society in the Turkish
Present
* Chapter One: Varieties of Islam in the Turkish Public Sphere
* Chapter Two: Confessional Pluralism and the Civil Society Effect
* Chapter Three: Counterpublic Spatial Practices of Muslim Civil
Society
* Chapter Four: Temporal Practices of Muslim Civil Society, or the
Dilemmas of Historicism
* Chapter Five: Fashioning the Neo-Ottoman Chronotope of Istanbul
* Afterword: A Panorama of Muslim Civil Society in Miniature
* Bibliography