Secular state and religious society
Subtitle: two forces in play in Turkey
By: edited by Berna Turam
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230338616
Subjects: Politics and government; Islam and state; Secularism
Notes: Based on a conference held in Amherst, Mass. and Hampshire College.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Secular State and Pious Muslims: Neither Rivals nor Allies for Life. Berna Turam; title: 1. The Dynamic Nature of Educational Policies and Turkish Nation-Building: Where does Religion Fit in? / Yesim Bayar; title: 2. Islam, Nation-State, and the Military: A Discussion of Secularism in Turkey / Sinem Gurbey; title: 3. Secularists as the Saviors of Islam: Rearticulation of secularism and the freedom of conscience in Turkey (1950) / Umut Azak; title: 4. Does Secularism Face a Serious Threat in Turkey? / Metin Heper; title: 5. Christian and Turkish: Secularist Fears of a Converted Nation / Esra Ozyurek; title: 6. Market Oriented Post-Islamism in Turkey / Tugrul Keskin; title: 7. Conflict, Democratic Reform and Big Business: Factors Shaping the Economic Elite's Position for Change / Devrim Yavuz; title: 8. Towards conceptual integration of religious actors in democracy and civil society / Aviad Rubin; title: Afterword / Murat Gunes Tezcur; title: Notes on Contributors.