Secularism and revivalism in Turkey
Subtitle: a hermeneutic reconsideration
By: Andrew Davison.
Series: Yale studies in hermeneutics
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Secularism -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century.; Islam and state -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century.; Turkey -- Religion -- 20th century.
Description: In this new interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey, Andrew Davison demonstrates the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. Led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a modernist Turkish elite in the 1920s wrested political power from an empire in which Islam had exercised great political, social, and cultural power. Ataturk 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264) and index.