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- Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey
- Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transitivities
- Part II Women in the Diyanet
- Part III Reassessing Women, Religion, and the State
- 8 Listen to the Battlefield
- 9 Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - Concluding Remarks
from Part III - Reassessing Women, Religion, and the State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2020
- Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey
- Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transitivities
- Part II Women in the Diyanet
- Part III Reassessing Women, Religion, and the State
- 8 Listen to the Battlefield
- 9 Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The concluding section relates the questions and hypotheses advanced throughout the entire study to the fieldwork. It states that all the hypotheses advanced, each in its own way, contribute to explain the Diyanet’s decision to support its own feminization. In the early 2000s, a state amnesty allowed the reinstatement of those women who had been excluded from public sectors because of the head scarf ban. However, such a reconfiguration of the political opportunities structure led to a broader effect: the emergence of a pious female bureaucrat who calls into question the role of devout Muslim women within both religious circles and Turkish society. The general conclusion is that the vaize institution testifies to an accomplished reinstatement of a generation of women within the state bureaucracy. Moreover, the emergence of a pious female bureaucrat redefines the boundaries of the Turkish state vis-à-vis religion.
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- Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey , pp. 277 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020