Akan The Politics of Secularism

Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54380-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 41, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Murat Akan reframes the question of secularism, exploring its presence both outside and inside Europe and offering a rich empirical account of how it moves across borders and through time. Akan uses France and Turkey to analyze comparative discussions of secularism, struggles for power, and historical contextual constraints.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akan, Murat

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Traveling Through Analytical and Hermeneutical Approaches
2. Accounting for Institutional Outcomes and Trajectories: Political Ends, Ideas, and Institutions
3. The Institutional Politics of Laïcité in the French Third Republic
4. The Politics of Laïcité Positive and Diversity in Contemporary France
5. The Institutional Politics of Laiklik in Kemalist Turkey
6. The Sincere Government (Samimi Hükümet), the Institutional Politics of Religion, and Diversity in Contemporary Turkey
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Murat Akan is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogaziçi University. He was a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany in 2012–2013.