Description
Since its foundation in 1923, the Republic of Turkey has had a complex and often misunderstood relationship with religion. The constitutional laïcité implemented by its founders is unique in a Muslim context, and although the majority of the population identifies as Muslim, the state recognizes no official religion. Despite this secular stance, Islam has been resurgent in Turkey in the 21st century. Moreover, the relative openness of Turkish society has cultivated vibrant religious (and non-religious) minority communities, placing it at the forefront of global demographic changes in religion. As a result, Turkey has fostered a perennial dynamism among expressions of religious practice, belief, and identity. The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which religion is understood, experienced, and contested in contemporary Turkey. The Handbook is arranged into thematic sections dealing with religion and the origin of the state, theological trends in the early republic, Islam in rural and urban settings, religious minorities, religion and culture, religion and politics, and modern intellectual and religious trends. Though this is a seemingly narrow topic, the subject of religion in Turkey attracts considerable interest both within and outside of the academy. Paradoxically, the study of modern Turkish theology is still in its infancy in the Western academy, not only because of the inaccessibility of the sources to non-Turkish speakers, but also because of an over-emphasis on the study of Turkish secularism, to the detriment of the study of religion itself. The Handbook thus represents an important intervention by presenting themes from modern Turkish theology, while opening the field of religious and Islamic studies to include more voices from Turkey. With co-editors in chief specializing in religious studies, theology, and anthropology, the Handbook provides the definitive reference work in this growing field.
Table of Contents
1. 100 Years of Religion in Turkey: Voices from the Center and the MarginsCaroline Tee, Fabio Vicini, and Philip DorrollPart I. Religion Between Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic2. Modern Islam and Reform in the Late Ottoman EmpireSusan Gunasti3. Beyond the Dichotomy of Secular and Religious: Turkish Secularism, the State, and the DiyanetBerna Zengin Arslan4. Religious Minorities and the Construction of Turkish IslamMarkus Dreßler5. Kurdish Medrese in Ottoman and Republican TimesMartin van Bruinessen6. A History of the Anatolian Kizilbas-Alevis (c.16th to early 20th century)Janina Karolewski and Benjamin WeineckPart II. Theological and Intellectual Trends in the 20th Century7. 20th Century Turkish Theology: Remaking and RenewalPhilip Dorroll8. Sufism in Republican TurkeyMark Soileau9. Islamism in Republican TurkeyKaterina Dalacoura10. The Secular and Religious: Or, What the Curious Lexicon of Turkish Neo-Spiritualism Might RevealKutlughan SoyubolPart III. Religious Life Between Rural and Urban Geographies11. Performing Piety: Religion and Rural Life in TurkeyKimberly Hart12. Cemaat and the city: Muslim Reconstruction in Modern TurkeyFabio Vicini13. Urban Relations of the Sacred: Building and Storytelling in Republican TurkeyTimur Hammond14. Twelver Shi'a in TurkeyStefan Williamson FaPart IV. Religious Minority Groups: Histories and Experiences15. Armenians in TurkeyTalin Suciyan16. The Syrian Orthodox Community in Contemporary Turkey and the DiasporaKerith Miller17. Eastern Orthodox Christians and the Ecumenical Patriarch of ConstantinopleAnna Maria Beylunioglu18. The Ezidis of TurkeyChristine Robins19. The Jewish Community in Modern and Contemporary TurkeyOzgur KaymakPart V. Religion, Art, and Culture20. Religion and Literature in Ottoman and Republican Turkey, 1850-1960Laurent Mignon21. Hagia Sophia and Universal Power from Byzantium to the Modern WorldBissera V. Pentcheva22. Islam and Music in TurkeyHarun Korkmaz and Martin Stokes23. Screening Piety: Religion in Turkish Film and Television DramaPetra de BruijnPart VI. Islam and Politics24. Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement: Power, Controversy, and the 'Good Muslim' ParadigmKim Shively and Caroline Tee25. Alevism and the Politics of Religious FreedomJeremy F. Walton and Çiçek Ilengiz26. The Directorate of Religious Affairs: Family-related Religious Guidance Bureaus, and Female Religious Authority in TurkeyHikmet Kocamaner27. From Cellhouses to the Parliament: Kurdish Hizbullah's Transformation and the AKP Governance in TurkeyMashuq KurtPart VII. Transformations of Modern Turkey28. Locating Women and the Expansion of Islamic Morality in the New Turkey: Anthropological and Sociological PerspectivesSertaç Sehlikoglu and Merve Kütük-Kuris29. The LGBTI Community and Religious Context in TurkeyCenk Özbay30. Turkey, Islam, and Turks in Europe: Postmigration TransnationalismThijl Sunier31. Contemporary Languages of Science and Islam in Turkey: The Qur'an, Evolution, and CreationismYunus Dogan TellielPart VIII. Contemporary Religious and Intellectual Trends32. Islamic Feminism in TurkeyFeyza Burak-Adli33. Public Islamic Intellectuals in TurkeyGokhan Bacik34. Turkey's Religious Nones: Atheists, Deists, or Post-Muslims?Pierre Hecker35. 21st Century Turkish Theology: Currents of Continuity and ContestationTaraneh R. WilkinsonIndex
