Muslimism in Turkey and Beyond [electronic resource] : Religion in the Modern World /
Cevik, Neslihan.author.
This book identifies a new Islamic form in Turkey: Muslimism. Neither fundamentalism nor liberal religion, Muslimism engages modernity through Islamic categories and practices. This new form has implications for discussions of democracy and Islam in the region, similar movements across religious traditions, and social theory on religion.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Turkey's Muslimists: from veil-chic women to a new political ethos -- From forbidden modern to guiltless modernity -- Muslimism versus Islamism -- Muslimist religious temperaments -- Muslimist cultural orientations and everyday life -- Muslimist political ethos.
This book identifies a new Islamic form in Turkey: Muslimism. Neither fundamentalism nor liberal religion, Muslimism engages modernity through Islamic categories and practices. This new form has implications for discussions of democracy and Islam in the region, similar movements across religious traditions, and social theory on religion.
Religion and sociology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Ethnology-Middle East .
Islam.
Religion-Philosophy.
Religion and Society.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Islam.
Philosophy of Religion.