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Women, religion and the state in contemporary Turkey / Chiara Maritato (University of Turin)

Maritato, Chiara, 1986- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020

xiii, 316 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Women, religion, and the state in contemporary Turkey / Maritato, Chiara (Online-Ausgabe)

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Maritato, Chiara, 1986-, Women, religion and the state in contemporary Turkey] / Korkut, Umut

978-1-108-83652-4 (hardback); 978-1-108-81250-4 (paperback)

978-1-108-87383-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2019060109

OCoLC: 1189756389     

LB 44340      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ1170

305.48/69709561

SSG-Nummer(n): 0; 1

*Türkei. Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı ; Predigerin ; Geschlechterrolle      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Turkey -- Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı ; Muslim women -- Religious life -- Turkey ; Islam -- Turkey -- 21st century ; Islam and state -- Turkey

"Since the early 2000s, the Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has considerably increased the number of women employed as religious officers. The book sheds light on the significance of this policy and retraces the broader political framework in which the process has been taking shape. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observations of the activities conducted by Diyanet women preachers in Istanbul mosques, the work breaks new ground on two fronts: on the one side, it elucidates how women access to Diyanet bureaucracy has resulted in a slow but unavoidable transformation of gender roles within Islamic institutions. The emergence of a pious, modern and highly educated woman determined to gain visibility in the (religious) public realm informs about state's attempt to standardize a multifaceted female religious participation. On the other side, the book illuminates on a broader reformulation of the religious services for women and families as a pervasive moral support which penetrates and reshapes the spaces of the secular. In this vein, the work scrutinizes the feminization of the Diyanet as a prism through which the continuous evolutions of Turkish secularism are investigated"--