Modernity, Islam, And Secularism In Turkey
Bodies, Places, And Time
Cinar, Alev
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A fascinating look at the relation between Islam and modernity.
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What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Cinar's groundbreaking examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the threshold of East and West, of religious and secular nationalism, explores modernity through daily practices and the social construction of identity and political agency in relation to nationalism, secularism, and Islam. Focusing on developments of the 1990s, Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey argues that Islamist ideology generated an alternative modernization project, which applied the same strategies and techniques as that of the modernizing state to produce and institutionalize its own version of an equally thorough nationalist program. Using local details and debates - including a fascinating discussion of veiling as symbolic of both the "liberation" of Western appearance and the Islamists' struggle to rescue their nation's culture - Cinar reveals modernity as a transformative intervention in bodies, places, and times. Bringing a much-needed critical theory approach to bear on the politics of an Islamic nation, Cinar's work introduces a new way of conceptualizing modernity based on the analysis of a non-Western context.
AUTHOR BIO
Alev Cinar is assistant professor of political science at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction1. Performative Politics and the Public Gaze2. Bodies: Clothing the National Body: Islamic Veiling and Secular Unveiling3. Places: Cities, Squares and Statues: The Use of Public Space in the Making of the Nation4. Times: Performing the Nation: Public Contestations of National HistoryConclusion NotesBibliographyIndex
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ISBN: 081664411X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780816644117
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 322/.1/09561
Library of Congress: 2004023012
Book Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 199
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