Overview
- Explores the state–religion relations under a populist regime
- Establishes clear linkages between the sermons and the populist government's narrative
- Examines the services provided by the Directorate of Religious Affairs of Turkey
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Populisms (PSP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Populism and religion
- Identitarian politics and religion
- Islam and politics
- Islamism
- Islamist populism
- Collective Emotions and Populism
- Erdoganist Populism
- Civilisationism
- Civilisationalism
- Transnational Populism
- Muslim ummah
- Populist State Institutions
- Institutional Evolution
- Adaptability in Authoritarian States
- Modern Jihadism
- Populist Conspiracy Theories
- Adaptability of Turkish populism
- Deglobalisation in Muslim Majority Countries
- Corelation between Populism and Authoritarian
- Politics in Turkey
About this book
This book explores state–religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey. In doing so, it investigates how the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) instrumentalizes state-controlled religion to further, defend, legitimatize and propagate its authoritarian populist political agenda in a constitutionally secular nation-state. To exemplify this, the authors examine the Friday sermons delivered weekly in every mosque in Turkey by the Turkish State’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). By analyzing all sermons delivered between 2010-2021, the book shows how the Diyanet has enthusiastically adopted AKP’s increasingly Islamist, authoritarian, civilisationist, militarist and pro-violence populism since 2010, and how it has tried to socially engineer beliefs in line with this ideology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ihsan Yilmaz is the Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has conducted mixed-method research on nation-building, citizenship, Islam–state–law relations in majority and minority contexts (Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, UK, USA and Australia), authoritarianism, Islamism, populism, transnationalism, ethno-religious and political minorities, securitisation, political participation and intergroup relations. He was Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Fatih University (2008-2016), Lecturer in Law, Social Sciences and Politics at SOAS, University of London (2001-2008), and a fellow at Centre for Islamic Studies, the University of Oxford (1999-2001).
Ismail Albayrak is the Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He has worked on Islamic studies and specifically on Qur’anic Studies, Classical Exegesis, Contemporary Approaches to the Qur’an and Orientalism. He is also interested in the place of Muslim communities and their activities in globalizing world together with a focus on interfaith dialogue. In line with these areas of interest, he has built a strong teaching and research track record in the study of Islam and complementary understanding of interfaith principles. His recent publications have focused on Islamic studies, Qur’anic studies, Interfaith dialogue, Muslims in modern world, Islamic movements and Islamic mysticism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion
Book Subtitle: The Diyanet’s Construction of Erdoğanist Islam in Turkey
Authors: Ihsan Yilmaz, Ismail Albayrak
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Populisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6707-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6706-0Published: 20 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6709-1Published: 21 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6707-7Published: 19 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-3069
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3077
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 336
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations