Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15933-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 317 g

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, and religious context for this behavior, the essays in Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey examine issues relevant to Turkish debates and global concerns, from the state's position on religion to its involvement with the European Union.Written by experts in a range of disciplines, the chapters explore the toleration of diversity during the Ottoman Empire's classical period; the erosion of ethno-religious heterogeneity in modern, pre-democratic times; Kemalism and its role in modernization and nation building; the changing political strategies of the military; and the effect of possible EU membership on domestic reforms. The essays also offer a cross-Continental comparison of "multiple secularisms," as well as political parties, considering especially Turkey's Justice and Development Party in relation to Europe's Christian Democratic parties. Contributors tackle critical research questions, such as the legacy of the Ottoman Empire's ethno-religious plurality and the way in which Turkey's assertive secularism can be softened to allow greater space for religious actors. They address the military's "guardian" role in Turkey's secularism, the implications of recent constitutional amendments for democratization, and the consequences and benefits of Islamic activism's presence within a democratic system. No other collection confronts Turkey's contemporary evolution so vividly and thoroughly or offers such expert analysis of its crucial social and political systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuru, Ahmet

Stepan, Alfred

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan1. Rethinking Ottoman Management of Diversity: What Can We Learn for Modern Turkey, by Karen Barkey2. The Historical Roots of Kemalism, by M. Sükrü Hanioglu3. Turkey Plural Society and Monolithic State, by Ergun Özbudun4. Laïcité as an "Ideal Type" and a Continuum: Comparing Turkey, France, and Senegal, by Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan5. A New Politics of Engagement: The Turkish Military, Society, and the AKP, by Ümit Cizre6. The Turkish Constitutional Court and Political Crisis, by Ergun Özbudun7. Turkey's Accession to the European Union and the Role of the Justice and Development Party, by Joost Lagendijk8. The "Turkish Model" in the Matrix of Political Catholicism, by Stathis N. KalyvasSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Ahmet T. Kuru, a former postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University, is associate professor of political science at San Diego State University and chair of the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey.

Alfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University and a former Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford University. His most recent book, with Juan J. Linz and Yogendra Yadav, is Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies, and another book with Linz, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.