Beyond sacred and secular : politics of religion in Israel and Turkey / Sultan Tepe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tepe, Sultan, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 413 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Beyond Sacred and Secular investigates religious politics and its implications for contemporary democracy through a comparison of political parties in Israel and Turkey. While the politics of Judaism and Islam are typically seen as outgrowths of oppositionally different beliefs, Sultan Tepe's comparative inquiry shows how limiting this understanding of religious politics can be. Her cross-country and cross-religion analysis develops a unique approach to identify religious parties' idiosyncratic and shared characteristics without reducing them to simple categories of religious/secular, Judeo-Christian/Islamic, or democratic/antidemocratic." "This book's findings will be especially relevant to those who want to pass beyond rudimentary typologies to better assess religious parties' capacities to undermine and contribute to liberal democracy. The Israeli and Turkish cases open a window to better understand the complexities of religious parties. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the characteristics of religious political parties - whether Jewish, Muslim, or yet another religion - can be as striking in their similarities as in their differences."--Jacket.

Contents:

Politics of religion : competing and coalescing conceptualizations

Religion in the making of the Israeli and Turkish nation-states : incomplete debates and continuing institutional reformations

Representing the sacred in mundane politics : the ideologies and leaders of Mafdal and Shas

Representing Islam in secular politics : the ideologies and leaders of the Nationalist Action, the National View, and the Justice and Development Parties

Between Zionism and Judaism? : religious party supporters in Israel

Between Laicism and Islam? : religious party supporters in Turkey .

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-405) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804763158

0804763151

OCLC:

1294424073