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- Creating the Desired Citizen
- Creating the Desired Citizen
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Anxious Nation and Its Ambivalent Westernism
- Part I Kemalism and Its Desired, Undesired, Tolerated Citizens
- Part II Emergence of the Counter-Hegemony: Erdoğanism
- Part III Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Popular Culture and Education
- Part IV Erdoğanism’s Undesired Citizens
- Part V Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- 12 Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- 13 The Use of Friday Sermons in Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens
- 14 The Future of Erdoğan’s Nation
- Book part
- Glossary
- References
- Index
12 - Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
from Part V - Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2021
- Creating the Desired Citizen
- Creating the Desired Citizen
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Anxious Nation and Its Ambivalent Westernism
- Part I Kemalism and Its Desired, Undesired, Tolerated Citizens
- Part II Emergence of the Counter-Hegemony: Erdoğanism
- Part III Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Popular Culture and Education
- Part IV Erdoğanism’s Undesired Citizens
- Part V Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- 12 Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- 13 The Use of Friday Sermons in Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens
- 14 The Future of Erdoğan’s Nation
- Book part
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter elaborates on the state’s Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) under AKP rule. Even during the AKP’s democratisation and human rights reforms, the Diyanet remained untouched and the AKP kept the Diyanet under its direct control. This chapter shows that, along with the rising Islamist populism and Muslim nationalism in Turkish politics, the Diyanet has gradually embraced a populist Islamist and Muslim nationalist rhetoric, paving the way for the emergence of Diyanet Islam 2.0. Via its centrally prepared Friday sermons that are delivered in Turkey’s 90,000 mosques attended by60 per cent of Turkey's adult males, the Diyanet propagated its new version of Diyanet Islam 2.0. Thus, in the sermons, glorification of martyrdom, anti-Western conspiracy theories, existential threats posed to the Muslim nation and the ummah by external and internal enemies, politics of victimhood, reverence of military, ummah and jihad, and enthusiastic support of the Turkish military’s incursions to other countries and framing it as jihad have become prominent themes. Similar to the earlier version, Diyanet Islam 2.0 too has its own corresponding version of the tolerated citizen, Homo Diyanetus 2.0.The chapter concludes with the definition of Homo Diyanetus 2.0.
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- Creating the Desired CitizenIdeology, State and Islam in Turkey, pp. 221 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021