Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration

ISBN-13: 9780300069365 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 280 str.

Andrew Davison

Opis

In this new interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey, Andrew Davison demonstrates the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. A hermeneutic approach, he argues, is essential in understanding the complex relations between politics and religion in post-Ottoman Turkey-and, more broadly, between politics and matters of culture throughout the modern world.