Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey / Charles Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Charles, Author.

Series:

Yale studies in hermeneutics Secularism and revivalism in Turkey

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism--History--20th century--Turkey.

Secularism.

Islam and state--History--20th century--Turkey.

Islam and state.

Turkey--Religion--20th century.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this new interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey, Andrew Davison demonstrates the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. A hermeneutic approach, he argues, illuminates the complex relations between religion and politics in post-Ottoman Turkey and, more broadly, between politics and matters of culture, tradition, national identity, and conscience in the modern world.Led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a modernist Turkish elite in the 1920s wrested political power from an empire in which Islam had exercised great political, social, and cultural power. Atatürk instituted policies designed to end Islamic power by secularizing politics and the state. Through the lens of hermeneutics, this book examines the ideas and policies of the secularizers and those who contested the process. Davison reinterprets the founding principles and practices of a modern, secular Turkey and closely reexamines the crucial ideas of the Turkish nationalist thinker Ziya Gökalp, who laid the conceptual groundwork for Turkey's Westernization experience. The application of hermeneutics, the author finds, remedies the methodological shortcomings of Western political analysts and provides a better understanding of the processes of secularization in Turkey as well as elsewhere in the modern world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Interpreting Alternative Modernities

Chapter 2. The Interpretive Commitment in Political Science

Chapter 3. Secularization and Modernization in Turkey: Interpreting the Ideas of Ziya Gökalp

Chapter 4. Interpreting Turkey's Secular Model

Conclusion Toward a Critical, Comparative, Secular Hermeneutics

Appendix

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300144123

0300144121

OCLC:

1013956679