THE SECULARIZATION AND DESECULARIZATION NEXUS IN THE TURKISH CONTEXT: WHAT IS BEHIND?
The history of Turkey provides multiple examples of intricate combination of secularization (in the Turkish tradition - laicism) and desecularizaion (understood as a revival of Islam and its expansion into social life) while its contemporary dynamics provides a background for a non-conventional view...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2019
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Politikologija religije
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-235 |
Further subjects: | B
Turkish Islamism
B Civil Society B Turkey B Jemaats B Turkish Democracy B Secularization-Desecularization nexus |
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Summary: | The history of Turkey provides multiple examples of intricate combination of secularization (in the Turkish tradition - laicism) and desecularizaion (understood as a revival of Islam and its expansion into social life) while its contemporary dynamics provides a background for a non-conventional view on the correlation between the state and religion in the Muslim societies. The desecularization of Turkey has been a continuous process since the late 1940s, making it increasingly convenient for Islamists to become more visible in the political and the socioeconomic spheres. This paper analyzes the inclusion and accommodation of the “Turkish Islamism” into the sociopolitical life of Turkey focusing on such important phenomena as the constantly expanding religious sphere, the emergence of economic liberal conservatism, the rising resurgence of Islamism in education and media sphere together with the “jemaatization” of the Turkish society. The manifold manifestations of descularization in social, political and economic life, its profound impact on the Turkish party system, banking sector, education and mass media indicates the dialectic nature of secularization and desecularization nexus and reveals the flexibility of the border between religious and political spheres. |
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ISSN: | 1820-659X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Politikologija religije
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