Religion, Identity and Politics: Germany and Turkey in Interaction

ISBN-13: 9780367866839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 206 str.

Haldun Gulalp; Gunter Seufert

Opis

This book’s examination of German-Turkish relations reveals the mutually formative processes of religious identities and institutions. Definition of identity and regulation of community have always been based on religion, except during the middle twentieth century, which is mistakenly treated as normative for being identified with the secularism

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Ottoman Empire, Islam and the Emergence of German National Identity, 1789-1815  2. Political Religion and Autocracy: Wilhelm II’s Encounter with Ottoman Islam  3. "Holy War Made in Germany"? Ottoman Origins of the 1914 Jihad  4. "Our New and Great Cultural Missions in the Orient": German Faith-Based and Secular Missionary Activities in the Late Ottoman Empire  5. Immigrants’ Struggle for Recognition: Religion and Politics  6. Islam and Gender under Liberal-Secular Governance: The German-Islam Conference  7. Muslim Loyalty Put to the Test: The Reception of the Cartoon Controversy in Germany  8. German Anti-Discrimination Law: Accommodating Religious Pluralism or Conserving the Cultural Heritage?  9. The Legal Treatment of Religious Minorities: Non-Muslims in Turkey and Muslims in Germany  10. Religious Conversion and National Identity: Turkish Christians and German Muslims  11. Alevism as a Subject of Religious Instruction in Turkey and Germany  12. Religion on My Mind: Secularism, Christianity and European Identity.  References

O autorze

Haldun Gülalp is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Studies at Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Günter Seufert is a senior researcher with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.