Pulpit, Mosque and Nation: Turkish Friday Sermons As Text and Ritual - Couverture souple

Özdalga, Elisabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474488218 ISBN 13 : 9781474488211

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Analyses the historical and sociological roles of Friday sermons in the nation-building process in modern Turkey Presents a new field of research, which focuses the role of Islamic oratory in the nation building process in modern Turkey Analyses various forms and contents (including a large number of translations from Turkish to English) of Friday prayer oratory Highlights how state patronage conducted through a secular political order has controlled religion, but also how an overpowering state has been challenged by various religious groups and institutions Synthesises three basic analytical dimensions of official Muslim oratory: the religious ritual; political and ideological discourses; and, governmental supervision through the official religious institution Diyanet With an all-pervading sermon theme of social, national and political unity, Elisabeth zdalga explores how long-standing religious rituals are utilised and mobilised in the formation of modern political loyalties and national identities. Since the formation of the Republic in 1923, Friday sermons (hutbe) have been an important platform that allows the state to engage and communicate with the Turkish people. Sermon topics vary from religious and ethical issues to matters concerning family, women, health, education, business and the environment. Even if politics, in the name of secularism, has been banned from mosques and sermons, questions of how to be a good citizen and honour the Turkish nation have been of utmost importance.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elisabeth zdalga is a retired senior researcher, and before that director, of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She was professor of sociology at the Middle East University in Ankara 1994-2009 and visiting chair of the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara 2011-13. She is the editor of several anthologies, among others Late Ottoman Society (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Novel and Nation in the Muslim World (with Daniella Kuzmanovic) (Palgrave 2015), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond (with Simon Stjernholm) (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and author of 'Islamism and Nationalism as Sister Ideologies: Reflections on the Politicization of Islam in a Longue Dur e Perspective,' Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 407-23, May 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474488218
• ISBN 13: 9781474488211
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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