RELIGION AND POLITICS
VOL. 10, NO. 6, PGS. 13–22

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The Institutionalisation of Religion in Turkey
Secularism, Religious Authority, and the Politics of State Control
İştar Gözaydın

İştar Gözaydın is a non-resident scholar with the Turkey Programme at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). She is the author of Religion, Politics and Society in Modern Turkey: 1808–2023.

The relationship between religion and political authority in Turkey presents one of the most distinctive configurations of secular governance in the modern world. Contrary to the conventional understanding of secularism as the institutional separation of religion and state, the Turkish experience has been characterised by the incorporation of religious administration [...]

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