The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey - Rilegato

Ozdalga, Elisabeth

 
9780700709830: The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0700709835 ISBN 13: 9780700709830
Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

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In the Turkish elections of December 1995, the Islamic Welfare Party became the biggest Party in parliament and for the first time in history, an Islamic party had come to power by means of free elections. The rise to power of the Turkish Islamists is a result of several decades of revivalism. In this process the veil has been a prominent symbol of the new religious puritanism, causing resentment among those who regard the bare-headed woman as the symbol of progress and emancipation. In the light of a century-long conflict between secularism and popular Islam, the present study describes the conflict over the veil as it became a burning issue in the decade following the military intervention of 1980 and remains to this day a matter of controversy. While focusing on the issue of veiling, the author also considers the wider picture of tension between official secularism and popular Islam in present-day Turkey. Although  this tension is not discounted, the author argues that the fact that the Islamic movement is on the rise does not mean that it threatens the very foundations of modern Turkish society. Whereas the controversies of the nineteenth century could be described as a 'clash of civilizations' (between Islam and the West), those of today have shrunk into conflicts over certain cultural symbols that are part of the same globally-expanding technological civilization.

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Elisabeth Ozdalga

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
1997
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0700709835
ISBN 13 
9780700709830
Rilegatura
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
128
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