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Author:   Massimo Rosati ,  Professor Alessandro Ferrara ,  Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9781472423122

ISBN 10:   1472423127
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   02 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword, Alessandro Ferrara; Preface; Introduction: new centres, new stories. Part I A Sociological Theory of Postsecular Society: Centre and periphery: social symbolic morphology; Clarifying the postsecular: a sociological reading; Postsecular sanctuaries and the centre: the sacredness of sacred places; Memory, trauma and the work of rituals: the dynamics of symbols. Part II The Turkish Laboratory: Centre and periphery in the history of Republican Turkey: a symbolic analysis; From a secular to a postsecular and post-Kemalist Turkey? The neo-Ottoman (democratic) narrative and the reconstruction of the Turkish central value system; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: an old symbol in transformation; Turning religious differences into a museum: Aya Sofya; When the water finds its crack: Hrant Dink at the crossroads of contemporary Turkey; Modernities and religions: the four quadrant model; Conclusion: Habap and the water that came from heaven; Appendix: Durkheim in Turkey;

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'In this posthumous work, Rosati turns received wisdom on its head and makes the case for Turkey as a truly post-secular society - and one Europe would do well to study and learn from. He allows us to envision the growth of a true pluralism of nations, ethnicities, religiously obliged and secular individuals and a cultural diversity that gives new meaning to the concept of neo-Ottomanism.'Adam B. Seligman, Boston University, USA and Director of CEDAR - Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion

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Massimo Rosati was Associate Professor of Sociology and the founder and first Director of the Centre for the Study and Documentation of Religions and Political Institutions in Post-Secular Society at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy. He was the author of Ritual and the Sacred: A Neo-Durkheimian Analysis of Politics, Religion and the Self and co-editor of Suffering and Evil: The Durkheimian Legacy, and Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies. Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for the Study and Documentation of Religions and Political Institutions in Post-Secular Society at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy. Former President of the Italian Association for Political Philosophy, he has recently authored The Democratic Horizon. Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism.

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