Can the State Make you More Religious? Evidence from Turkish Experience

This paper first evaluates the impact of a two-decade-long Islamization policy carried out by a pro-Islamist party, which came to power in 2002 in Turkey, on the attitudes of Turkish people toward religious values, religious practices, and clergy. In this regard, how the importance of religion, freq...

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Main Author: Çokgezen, Murat 19XX- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 349-373
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Turkey / Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi / Religiosity / Islamization / State / Religion / History 2002-2018
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
TK Recent history
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Turkey
B Politicization of religion
B Government intervention to religion
B Islamization
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