Populist and pro-violence state religion : The Diyanet’s construction of Erdoğanist Islam in Turkey

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Albayrak, Ismail. (2022). Populist and pro-violence state religion : The Diyanet’s construction of Erdoğanist Islam in Turkey Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6707-7
AuthorsAlbayrak, Ismail
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This book explores state–religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey. In doing so, it investigates how the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) instrumentalizes state-controlled religion to further, defend, legitimatize and propagate its authoritarian populist political agenda in a constitutionally secular nation-state. To exemplify this, the authors examine the Friday sermons delivered weekly in every mosque in Turkey by the Turkish State’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). By analyzing all sermons delivered between 2010-2021, the book shows how the Diyanet has enthusiastically adopted AKP’s increasingly Islamist, authoritarian, civilisationist, militarist and pro-violence populism since 2010, and how it has tried to socially engineer beliefs in line with this ideology.

Keywordspopulism and religion; identitarian politics and religion; Islam and politics; Islamism; Islamist populism; collective emotions and populism; Erdoganist populism; civilisationism; civilisationalism; transnational populism; Muslim ummah; populist state institutions; institutional evolution; adaptability in authoritarian states; modern jihadism; populist conspiracy theories; adaptability of Turkish populism; deglobalisation in Muslim majority countries; corelation between populism and authoritarian; politics in Turkey
ISBN9789811667077
9789811667060
9789811667091
ISSN2731-3069
2731-3077
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6707-7
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Year2022
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Place of publicationSingapore, Singapore
SeriesPalgrave studies in populisms
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