Türkiye, Islam and Secularism

The role that religion plays in social life and the tense relationship between religious institutions and the modernization perspective of the Republican period have led to various discussions in terms of sociology. Serif Mardin's articles brought together in this book examine what role the lines of tension from the political debates in the 19th century to the AKP played in political thought and the political scene.

Serif Mardin, who is one of the leading names in our intellectual life due to his important contributions to the history of thought, religion and political sociology in Turkey, explains the phenomena such as religion, modernization and Westernization, which have been on the agenda in our society for more than a hundred years, by staying outside both the official interpretation and the established opposition discourses. examines it together with its social background and background. Mardin's not being caught up in the "accepted" tendency and method shaped by the positivist Western thought combined with the dominant view in Turkey, his not putting the dynamics of social change into generally accepted patterns, and his staying away from the effects of the official ideology and Kemalist discourse, distinguish him from a significant part of the "Republican intellectuals". and it requires placing all his works in a privileged place in our sociological world.



Number of Pages: 288

Year of Printing: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 288

First Print Year: 2011

Language Turkish