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Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet's Construction of Erdoganist Islam in Turkey

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Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet's Construction of Erdoganist Islam in Turkey - Yilmaz, Ihsan, and Albayrak, Ismail
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This book explores state-religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey. In doing so, it investigates how the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) instrumentalizes state-controlled religion to further, defend, legitimatize and propagate its authoritarian populist political agenda in a constitutionally secular nation-state. To exemplify this, the authors examine the Friday sermons delivered weekly in every mosque in Turkey by the Turkish State's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). By ...

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Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet's Construction of Erdoganist Islam in Turkey 2023, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore

ISBN-13: 9789811667091

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Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet's Construction of Erdoganist Islam in Turkey 2022, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore

ISBN-13: 9789811667060

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