Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey (eBook)

Anthropocratic Republic

Christopher Houston (Autor)

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2021 | 1st ed. 2021
XII, 106 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-79657-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy. In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine. 

In distinguishing anthropocracy from varieties of other secular and laicist political arrangements, as well as from theocracy, this book also gives readers a brilliant solution to what it calls the Turkish puzzle, the dilemma over how to best describe and analyze state-religion and state-society relations in the Turkish Republic. This work convincingly undermines two orthodox presumptions about Turkish politics: the claim that Turkish modernity should be considered an example of secularity; and the accusation that the current AKP government should be interpreted as Islamic. On the contrary, it argues that both Kemalism and the AKP continue to institute an anthropocratic Republic. 

Christopher Houston is Discipline Chair of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Turkey on Islamic social movements, nationalism, urban processes in Istanbul, and on the Kurdish issue. His most recent book is titled Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d'état, and Memory in Turkey (California University Press, 2020). He was President of the Australian Anthropological Society in 2014/2015.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.8.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 106 p. 2 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: Anthropology of Religion • divine law • Islam • Kemalism • religion in Turkey • Secularism • theocracy • Turkey
• ISBN-10: 3-030-79657-4 / 3030796574
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-79657-0 / 9783030796570