Overview
Since the formation of the Republic in 1923, Friday sermons (hutbe) have been an important platform that allows the state to engage and communicate with the Turkish people. Sermon topics vary from religious and ethical issues to matters concerning family, women, health, education, business and the environment. Even if politics, in the name of secularism, has been banned from mosques and sermons, questions of how to be a good citizen and honour the Turkish nation have been of utmost importance. With an all-pervading sermon theme of social, national and political unity, Elisabeth zdalga explores how long-standing religious rituals are utilised and mobilised in the formation of modern political loyalties and national identities.
Full Product Details
Author: Elisabeth zdalga
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474488211
ISBN 10: 1474488218
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 16 August 2023
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Through a meticulous examination of the Friday sermons, Elisabeth zdalga analyses the public role of religion in Turkey from containment by the secular state to instrumentalisation by the Islamist government. This is a most valuable contribution to our understanding of state-religion configurations in modern Turkey."" -Dr. Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London"
""Through a meticulous examination of the Friday sermons, Elisabeth zdalga analyses the public role of religion in Turkey from containment by the secular state to instrumentalisation by the Islamist government. This is a most valuable contribution to our understanding of state-religion configurations in modern Turkey."" -Dr. Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London
Author Information
Elisabeth zdalga is a retired senior researcher, and before that director, of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She was professor of sociology at the Middle East University in Ankara 1994-2009 and visiting chair of the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara 2011-13. She is the editor of several anthologies, among others Late Ottoman Society (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Novel and Nation in the Muslim World (with Daniella Kuzmanovic) (Palgrave 2015), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond (with Simon Stjernholm) (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and author of 'Islamism and Nationalism as Sister Ideologies: Reflections on the Politicization of Islam in a Longue Dur e Perspective,' Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 407-23, May 2009.
