The politics of secularism : religion, diversity, and institutional change in France and Turkey / Murat Akan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akan, Murat, 1973- author.

Series:

Religion, culture, and public life

Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism--Political aspects--France.

Secularism--Political aspects--Turkey.

Church and state--France.

Church and state.

Secularism--Political aspects.

Secularism.

France.

Islam and state--Turkey.

Islam and state.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

xiv, 357 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"This book tackles a question central to the literature on secularism and religion and offers a comparison that critically reflects on the binaries of radical versus moderate religion, and rigid versus moderate secularism. Turkey is the longtime critical case of whether (and how) secularism can travel to a Muslim majority country. France is the critical case in Europe whose history has constituted many of the political ideals of western modernity and has set an example for many countries. There is a strong claim in the literature that Turkey is one of those countries following the French model; therefore, an in-depth comparison of these cases can address the general question of how secularism travels that is central to multiple modernities debates. The relevant IR literature has predominantly argued that secularism in Turkey has followed French laïcité and that both Turkey and France struggle between rigid forms of secularism and challenges of diversity. Akan's objective is to resolve this deadlock and explore the possibility of a shared political field which can account for trajectories of secularism across the boundaries of Europe" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Travelling through analytical and hermeneutical approaches

Accounting for institutional outcomes and trajectories: political ends, ideas and institutions

The institutional politics of Laicite in the French Third Republic

The politics of Laicite positive and diversity in contemporary France

The institutional politics of Laiklik in Kemalist Turkey

The sincere government (Samimi Hukumet) and the institutional politics of religion, and

Diversity in contemporary Turkey

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231181808

0231181809

OCLC:

984510906