Religion, society, and modernity in Turkey

Religion, society, and modernity in Turkey / Şerif Mardin.

This work encompasses Şerif Mardin's seminal essays written over a span of three decades (1967-1997). The essays deal with the historical background, political travails, and socio-economic metamorphosis of Turkey during a century of modernization.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mardin, Şerif
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East.
Subjects:
Islam > Turkey.
Turkey > Social conditions > 19th century.
Turkey > Social conditions > 20th century.
Turkey > Civilization > Western influences.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Historical thresholds and stratification : social class and class consciousness
  • 2. Power, civil society, and culture in the Ottoman empire
  • 3. Civil society and Islam
  • 4. The transformation of an economic code
  • 5. The modernization of social communication
  • 6. Some consideration on the building of an Ottoman public identity in the nineteenth century
  • 7. Super-westernization in urban life in the Ottoman empire in the last quarter of the nineteenth century
  • 8. Continuity and change in the ideas of the young Turks
  • 9. The alienation of the young Turks : an attempt at a partial explanation of a "revolutionary conscience"
  • 10. Ideology and religion in the Turkish revolution
  • 11. Youth and violence in Turkey
  • 12. Religion in modern Turkey
  • 13. Cultural change and the intellectual : Necip Fazil and the Nakşibendi
  • 14. Islam in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Turkey
  • 15. Center-periphery as a concept for the study of social transformation
  • 16. Playing games with names.

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