Freedom of Religion, the ECtHR and Grassroots Mobilization on Religious Education in Turkey

This paper examines grassroots mobilizations in Turkey against the government's policies on religion and education (RE), and the potential effects of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) on their mobilization. Specifically, it follows the ways in which grassroots actors frame...

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Publié dans:Politics and religion
Auteur principal: Özgül, Ceren (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
Dans: Politics and religion
Année: 2019, Volume: 12, Numéro: 1, Pages: 103-133
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Turkey / Religious freedom / Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte / Civil rights / Political movement / Religious education
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord
XA Droit
ZC Politique en général
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Résumé:This paper examines grassroots mobilizations in Turkey against the government's policies on religion and education (RE), and the potential effects of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) on their mobilization. Specifically, it follows the ways in which grassroots actors frame their discourses of secularism and freedom of religion in education during a period when the Turkish government is aiming to increase the role of Sunni-Islam in national education, while at the same time refusing to implement ECtHR decisions regarding RE. Drawing on empirical research, it analyzes the role the ECtHR and its case law play in the diverse rights claims and discourses of three different types of mobilizations that is going on in the field of RE: (i) legal mobilization, and right to exemption and freedom from religion, (ii) political mobilization, and new discourses of pluralism and secularism, (iii) monitoring and policy-based mobilization and national and international advocacy for pluralism and equality in education.
ISSN:1755-0491
Contient:Enthalten in: Politics and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S1755048318000779