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Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet’s Construction of Erdoğanist Islam in Turkey (Palgrave Studies in Populisms) by Ihsan Yilmaz;Ismail Albayrak;(auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet’s Construction of Erdoğanist Islam in Turkey (Palgrave Studies in Populisms) about?

This book explores state{u2013}religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey. In doing so, it investigates how the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) instrumentalizes state-controlled religion to further, defend, legitimatize and propagate its authoritarian populist political agenda in a constitutionally secular nation-state. To exemplify this, the authors examine the Friday sermons delivered weekly in every mosque in Turkey by the Turkish State{u2019}s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). By analyzing all sermons delivered between 2010-2021, the book shows how the Diyanet has enthusiastically adopted AKP{u2019}s increasingly Islamist, authoritarian, civilisationist, militarist and pro-violence populism since 2010, and how it has tried to socially engineer beliefs in line with this ideology. Ihsan Yilmaz is the Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has conducted mixed-method research on nation-building, citizenship, Islam{u2013}state{u2013}law relations in majority and minority contexts (Turkey,

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Author
Ihsan Yilmaz;Ismail Albayrak;(auth.)
Publisher
Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9789811667077
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Political Science, Religion

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