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Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time
Alev Cinar
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Description for Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time
Paperback. Series: Worlds S. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 225 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Cinar's groundbreaking examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the threshold of East and West, of religious and secular nationalism, explores modernity through daily practices and the social construction of identity and political agency in relation to nationalism, secularism, and Islam. Focusing on developments of the 1990s, Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey argues that Islamist ideology generated an alternative modernization project, which applied the same strategies and techniques as that of the modernizing state ... Read more
What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Cinar's groundbreaking examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the threshold of East and West, of religious and secular nationalism, explores modernity through daily practices and the social construction of identity and political agency in relation to nationalism, secularism, and Islam. Focusing on developments of the 1990s, Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey argues that Islamist ideology generated an alternative modernization project, which applied the same strategies and techniques as that of the modernizing state ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Worlds S.
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816644117
SKU
V9780816644117
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About Alev Cinar
Alev Cinar is assistant professor of political science at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
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