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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
- 4 The Diyanet’s Policies toward Women
- 5 Vaizeler’s Invitation
- 6 Achieving Public Piety through the Vaizeler’s Sessions
- 7 Religious Counseling and Moral Support for Women and Families
- Part III Reassessing Women, Religion, and the State
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Religious Counseling and Moral Support for Women and Families
from Part II - Women in the Diyanet
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
- 4 The Diyanet’s Policies toward Women
- 5 Vaizeler’s Invitation
- 6 Achieving Public Piety through the Vaizeler’s Sessions
- 7 Religious Counseling and Moral Support for Women and Families
- Part III Reassessing Women, Religion, and the State
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The chapter presents the religious guidance and moral support (irşad in Turkish) that the Diyanet preachers provide to women and families. In line with a redefinition of religious services as a pastoral care designed to enlighten the believer on any aspects of life, the irşad’s activities have been deeply reshaped. This has occurred through old and new institutions that have been put in place. The chapter refers to the fatwa services provided in local mufti offices, as a phone service and via online platform, and to the Family Guidance and Consultation Bureaus established in 2002 with the aim to provide religious counseling to women and families. It also emphasizes how religious officers’ activities are conducted outside the mosques, in prisons, hospitals, orphanages, and women’s shelters. The expansion of the Diyanet’s moral mission is thus characterized by a pervasive moral support that goes beyond the mosques to penetrate and reshape the spaces of the secular.
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- Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey , pp. 204 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020