Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Religious Politics in Turkey
  • Cited by 73
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2018
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781108638906
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108638906
Subjects:
Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History, Politics and International Relations, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
Series:
Cambridge Middle East Studies (54)
Information

Book description

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 the state by institutions established during early nation-building. Lord thus challenges the traditional account of Islamist AKP's rise that sees it either as a grassroots reaction to the authoritarian secularism of the state or as a function of the state's utilisation of religion. Tracing struggles within the state, Lord also shows how the state's principal religious authority, the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) competed with other state institutions to pursue Islamisation. Through privileging Sunni Muslim access to state resources to the exclusion of others, the Diyanet has been a key actor ensuring persistence and increasing salience of religious markers in political and economic competition, creating an amenable environment for Islamist mobilisation.

Reviews

'A captivating book and a welcome addition to a growing genre of critical scholarship on secularism in Turkey.'

Sinem Adar Source: EuropeNow

'… [Religious Politics in Turkey] makes an important point that should revise our understanding of Turkish politics.'

David C. Unger Source: Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

'… rich with ideas and detail …'

John Waterbury Source: Foreign Affairs

‘… Religious Politics in Turkey enables the reader not only to overcome the superficial struggle between authoritarian laicism deriving from state elites and conservative sensitiveness stemming from society, but also to provide a multidimensional framework to comprehend state-religion relations in Turkey.’

Mehmet Ertan Source: New Perspectives on Turkey

‘Religious Politics in Turkey is a meticulously argued and empirically rich case study … Its general analytical framework makes the book highly relevant to students of nationalism, democratization, and social movements as well as students of religion and politics.’

Yesim Bayar Source: Political Studies Review

‘… emerges as a new piece of research, claiming to discuss a new dimension of this intricacy, beyond the classic readings of religion, law, and politics in Turkey … Lord’s book stands out as a fine study of Turkish politics, Turkish religiosity, and Turkish secularism and is a work at which everyone concerned with these issues should at least take a look.’

Ahmet Erdi Ozturk Source: Journal of Law and Religion

‘Ceren Lord’s Religious Politics in Turkey: From the Birth of the Republic to the AKP is valuable for the light it casts on the intertwined and often complex relationship between state, religion and society in Turkey.’

Elizabeth Bishop and Victoria Elizondo Source: Immigrants & Minorities

‘… Lord’s book is a great contribution to the growing field of critical scholarship on secularism in Turkey for its analytical meticulousness and the use of a unique data set on the institutional history of the Diyanet.’

Ömer Faruk Koç Source: Politics, Religion & Ideology

‘… every statement made is consistently supported by sound evidence and a broader theoretical framework that makes sense. The level of detail in the information provided and the extent of clarity and consistency makes this book not only a reliable read but also a distinguished example of the post-positivist outlook in Turkish studies.’

Durukan Imrie-Kuzu Source: National Identities

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

Contents

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

Book summary page views

Total views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.