Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey [electronic resource] : The Myth of Toleration /
Kaya, A.author.
The book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey, and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel with the Europeanization process, which has boosted the rhetoric of the Alliance of Civilizations in a way that culturalized what is social and political.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Multiple Modernities and Turkish Modernity: A Continuous Journey of Europeanization; 2 Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses in Turkey; 3 The Kurdish Question: 100 Years of Solitude; 4 AKP's Alevi Initiative: Limits of Tolerance; 5 The Headscarf Issue; 6 Nation, Europe and Modernity: Social Critique of the 'Holy Trinity' (Sunni-Muslim-Turk); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey, and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel with the Europeanization process, which has boosted the rhetoric of the Alliance of Civilizations in a way that culturalized what is social and political.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology-Europe.
Europe-Politics and government.
Ethnicity.
Political sociology.
European Union.
Social Aspects of Religion.
European Culture.
European Politics.
Ethnicity Studies.
Political Sociology.
European Union Politics.