Women, religion, and the state in contemporary Turkey / Chiara Maritato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maritato, Chiara, 1986- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey. Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı.

Turkey.

Muslim women--Religious life--Turkey.

Muslim women.

Islam--Turkey--21st century.

Islam.

Islam and state--Turkey.

Islam and state.

Muslim women--Religious life.

Physical Description:

xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Since the early 2000s, the Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has considerably increased the number of women employed as religious officers. The book sheds light on the significance of this policy and retraces the broader political framework in which the process has been taking shape. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observations of the activities conducted by Diyanet women preachers in Istanbul mosques, the work breaks new ground on two fronts: on the one side, it elucidates how women access to Diyanet bureaucracy has resulted in a slow but unavoidable transformation of gender roles within Islamic institutions. The emergence of a pious, modern and highly educated woman determined to gain visibility in the (religious) public realm informs about state's attempt to standardize a multifaceted female religious participation. On the other side, the book illuminates on a broader reformulation of the religious services for women and families as a pervasive moral support which penetrates and reshapes the spaces of the secular. In this vein, the work scrutinizes the feminization of the Diyanet as a prism through which the continuous evolutions of Turkish secularism are investigated"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

pt. I Transitivities: Women, Religion, and Turkish Secularism

2. Religion, A State Affair

3. Pious Women And The Secular State

pt. II Women in the Diyanet: Forms and Meanings

4. The Diyanet's Policies Toward Women

5. Vaizeler's Invitation: The Mosque As A Place For Women

6. Achieving Public Piety Through The Vaizeler's Sessions

7. Religious Counseling And Moral Support For Women And Families

pt. III Reassessing Women, Religion, and the State

8. Listen To The Battlefield: Female Preachers Within A Secular State

9. Concluding Remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Maritato, Chiara, Women, religion and the state in contemporary Turkey

ISBN:

9781108836524

1108836526

9781108812504

1108812503

OCLC:

1135664554