Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet’s Construction of Erdoğanist Islam in Turkey 1st edition

Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet’s Construction of Erdoğanist Islam in Turkey 1st edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789811667060,9811667063,9789811667077, 9811667071

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎9811667071
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9789811667077
• Author: Ihsan Yilmaz,Ismail Albayrak

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 analyzing all sermons delivered between 2010-2021, the book shows how the Diyanet has enthusiastically adopted AKP’s increasingly Islamist, authoritarian, civilisationist, militarist and pro-violence populism since 2010, and how it has tried to socially engineer beliefs in line with this ideology.

Table contents:

1. From Pro-Kemalist to the Populist and Pro-Violence Diyanet

2. The Evolution of the Kemalists’ Diyanet

3. Redefining Diyanet in the AKP Era

4. Swinging Between Turkish Nationalism and Global Pan-Islamism

5. Antagonism Towards Christians and Interfaith Dialogue

6. Islamist Populist Conspiracy Theories and Victimhood

7. Demonization and De-Humanisation of AKP’s Opponents

8. Pro-violence Islamist Populism: Militarism, Glorification of Martyrdom and Jihadism

9. The Future of the Mosque–State Relations in Turkey

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