ENGLISH

Islam in Modern Turkey: Religion, Politics, and Literature in a Secular State

By Richard Tapper

Book information

Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company
Year
1991
ISBN
1850433216, 9781850433217
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5695071 bytes)
Pages
314\320
Time added
2020-11-13 20:42:10

Description

When the Turkish republic was founded in 1923, secularism was adopted as one of the key principles of the new state, and religious expression was brought under strict government supervision. Republican ideology and its associated institutions came to dominate much of everyday life. Only after 1950, when the centre-right Democrat party was elected, did this repressive attitude to religion cease. The growth in popular religious sentiment became particularly evident in the 1980s with the proliferation of religious newspapers and literature.

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