Pious Politics

Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey

AvZeynep Ozgen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

What explains the rise and resilience of the Islamist movement in Turkey? Since its founding in 1923, the Turkish republic has periodically reined in Islamist actors. Secular laws denied legitimacy to religious ideas, publications, and civic organizations, while military coups jailed or banned Islamist party leaders from politics. Despite such adversity, Islamists won an unprecedented victory at the 2002 national elections and have continued to rule since. 'Pious Politics' explains how Islamists succeeded by developing a popular, well-organized movement over decades that rallied the masses and built vigorous political parties. But an equally formative-if not more significant-factor was the cultural groundwork Islamists laid through a remarkably robust model of mobilization. Drawing on two years of ethnographic and archival research in Turkey, Zeynep Ozgen explores how social movements leverage cultural production to create sociopolitical change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-30
Vikt:532 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009653268

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Zeynep Ozgen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research interests include the role of culture in politics, with a regional focus on the Middle East. Her work has appeared in sociology and multidisciplinary journals and received various awards from the American Sociological Association.

Recensioner i media

'Pious Politics offers an engaging and ambitious analysis of the rise of Islamist politics in Turkey. The book provides a stark reminder of what we miss when we fail to take culture seriously and when we overlook long-term processes that lay the groundwork for significant political transformations.' Rory McVeigh, The Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

Innehållsförteckning

1. Transformation box; 2. Explaining the relationship between culture and politics; 3. State ambivalence and the emergence of the dual model of mobilization; 4. A tale of two movements or more?; 5. Imam- Hatip schools: a case study; 6. Prefiguring Islamic Society; 7. Conclusion.