Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi (2019) An alternative reading of religion and authoritarianism: the new logic between religion and state in the AKP’s new Turkey. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 19 (1). pp. 79-98. ISSN 1468-3857
|
Text
An-alternative-reading-of-religion-and-authoritarianism.pdf - Accepted Version Download (938kB) | Preview |
Abstract / Description
Since roughly 2011, the Turkish state and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been going through a process of mutual transformation. Some of the historical apprehensions, biases and frustrations exhibited by Turkey as a middle power been absorbed by the relatively reformist AKP. Conversely, the AKP and its undisputed leader Erdoğan have seen their socio-political fears, power based conflicts and ethno-religious desires become dominant in all areas, including religion. As a consequence of this bilateral transformation, Turkey has become both an inclusionary and a hegemonic-authoritarian state, and at the same time a weak one. Within this new identity and structure of the state, Sunni Islam has become one of the regime’s key focal points, with a new logic. This article seeks to explain the transformation of the relations between the AKP’s Turkish state, religion and religious groups, by scrutinising Karrie Koesel’s logic of state-religion interaction in authoritarian regimes.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Uncontrolled Keywords: | religion, authoritarianism, Islam, Turkey, AKP |
Subjects: | 200 Religion > 290 Other religions 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science |
Department: | School of Social Sciences (to June 2021) School of Social Sciences and Professions |
Depositing User: | Ahmet Ozturk |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2020 10:54 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2020 10:54 |
URI: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/5406 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Downloads each year
Actions (login required)
![]() |
View Item |