27 Mayıs 2011 Cuma

Civil Religion and Secular Nationalism in Turkey

I have published an article in the special issue of The George Washington International Law Review. This special issue has articles on Europe, US and Turkey.

If you would like to read the whole article, you follow the link below.

“Sacralization of the State and Secular Nationalism: Foundations of Civil Religion in Turkey”, The George Washington International Law Review, 2010, Vol. 41, No.4, 2010, pp. 963-983

http://docs.law.gwu.edu/stdg/gwilr/PDFs/41-4/JLE413.pdf
 
The article deals with the following issues:
This Article illustrates how secular nationalism has been introduced as a source of collective identity and as a founding ideology of the Turkish state vis-`a-vis the Islamic legacy of the Ottoman Empire. This Article locates religion in the process of laying the foundations of civil religion and examine how religion has been sidelined, marginalized, and reconfigured by the state ideology. Finally, in the context of Turkey-EU relations, this Article will analyze how the Turkish state has repositiones itself with regard to Islam, non-Muslims, and freedom of religion.

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