Islamic schools in modern Turkey : faith, politics, and education / Iren Ozgur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ozgur, Iren, 1976- author.

Series:

Cambridge Middle East studies ; 39.

Cambridge Middle East studies ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic religious education--Turkey.

Islamic religious education.

Islam and state--Turkey.

Islam and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, the Islamization of Turkish politics and public life has been the subject of much debate in Turkey and the West. This book makes an important contribution to those debates by focusing on a group of religious schools, known as Imam-Hatip schools, founded a year after the Turkish Republic, in 1924. At the outset, the main purpose of Imam-Hatip schools was to train religious functionaries. However, in the ensuing years, the curriculum, function and social status of the schools have changed dramatically. Through ethnographic and textual analysis, the book explores how Imam-Hatip school education shapes the political socialization of the schools' students, those students' attitudes and behaviours and the political and civic activities of their graduates. By mapping the schools' connections to Islamist politicians and civic leaders, the book sheds light on the significant, yet often overlooked, role that the schools and their communities play in Turkey's Islamization at the high political and grassroots levels.

Contents:

Imam-Hatip schools within a secular state

Accumulating and exhibiting Habitus

Agents of political socialization: influences in the communities

Imam-Hatip schools, their communities, and Islamist politics

Imam-Hatip schools, their communities, and Islamist civil society organizations

International interest and conclusions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-54035-1

1-107-23619-3

1-283-57482-9

1-139-52756-8

9786613887276

1-139-53222-7

1-139-52875-0

1-139-17602-1

1-139-52636-7

1-139-53103-4

OCLC:

809767834