Women, religion, and the state in contemporary Turkey

Tracing the centrality of women in the definition of Turkish secularism, this study investigates the 2003 decision to increase the number of women officers employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It explores how, as professional religious officers, the female Diyanet preachers epi...

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1. VerfasserIn: Maritato, Chiara 1986- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
In:Jahr: 2020
Rezensionen:[Rezension von: Maritato, Chiara, 1986-, Women, religion and the state in contemporary Turkey] (2022) (Korkut, Umut, 1975 -)
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Türkei, Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı / Predigerin / Geschlechterrolle
weitere Schlagwörter:B Islam and state (Turkey)
B Islam and state ; Turkey
B Muslim women ; Religious life ; Turkey
B Islam 21st century (Turkey)
B Turkey ; Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı
B Turkey Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı
B Muslim Women Religious life (Turkey)
B Islam ; Turkey ; 21st century
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Zusammenfassung:Tracing the centrality of women in the definition of Turkish secularism, this study investigates the 2003 decision to increase the number of women officers employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It explores how, as professional religious officers, the female Diyanet preachers epitomize a pious, modern and highly educated woman whose role in society has been raised to prominence. Based on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, and drawing on a rich ethnography of the activities conducted by Diyanet women preachers in Istanbul, Chiara Maritato disentangles the state's attempt to standardize a multifaceted female religious participation. In using the feminization of the Diyanet as a prism through which to understand the significance of a renewed presence of Islam in the Turkish public realm, she casts light on a broader reformulation of religious services for women and families in Turkey, and pinpoints how this pervasive moral support has been able to penetrate and reshape even secular spaces.
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ISBN:1108873839
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781108873833