And Then We Work for God : Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey

And Then We Work for God : Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey / Kimberly Hart.

Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two vill...

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Main Author: Hart, Kimberly, 1967- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Islam > Turkey > Customs and practices.
Islam and culture > Turkey.
Rural population > Turkey.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Islam and culture
Islam > Customs and practices
Rural population
Turkey > Religious life and customs.
Turkey
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : competing claims to religious authority
  • Secular time and the individual
  • Islamic time and the village
  • Good deeds and the moral economy
  • Constructing Islam : mosques, men, and the state
  • Women's traditions and innovations
  • Ritual purification and the pernicious danger of culture
  • Secular and spiritual routes to knowledge
  • An entrepreneurial 'neo-tarikat' and Islamic education
  • Dealing with the secular world : a trip to the beach.

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