Pulpit, Mosque and Nation

Turkish Friday Sermons as Text and Ritual

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Elisabeth Özdalga, The Swedish Research Institute) Ozdalga, Elisabeth (Retired Professor and Senior Researcher

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Analyses the historical and sociological roles of Friday sermons in the nation-building process in modern Turkey Presents a new field of research, which focuses the role of Islamic oratory in the nation building process in modern TurkeyAnalyses various forms and contents (including a large number of translations from Turkish to English) of Friday prayer oratoryHighlights how state patronage conducted through a secular political order has controlled religion, but also how an overpowering state has been challenged by various religious groups and institutions Synthesises three basic analytical dimensions of official Muslim oratory: the religious ritual; political and ideological discourses; and, governmental supervision through the official religious institution DiyanetWith an all-pervading sermon theme of social, national and political unity, Elisabeth zdalga explores how long-standing religious rituals are utilised and mobilised in the formation of modern political loyalties and national identities. Since the formation of the Republic in 1923, Friday sermons (hutbe) have been an important platform that allows the state to engage and communicate with the Turkish people. Sermon topics vary from religious and ethical issues to matters concerning family, women, health, education, business and the environment. Even if politics, in the name of secularism, has been banned from mosques and sermons, questions of how to be a good citizen and honour the Turkish nation have been of utmost importance.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-07-17
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474488211

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Elisabeth Özdalga is a retired senior researcher, and before that director, of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She was professor of sociology at the Middle East University in Ankara 1994-2009 and visiting chair of the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara 2011-13. She is the editor of several anthologies, among others Late Ottoman Society (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Novel and Nation in the Muslim World (with Daniella Kuzmanovic) (Palgrave 2015), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond (with Simon Stjernholm) (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and author of ‘Islamism and Nationalism as Sister Ideologies: Reflections on the Politicization of Islam in a Longue Durée Perspective,’ Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 407-23, May 2009.

Introduction: Pulpit under Red BannerThe Hutbe in Historical PerspectiveEarly Authorized Hutbe Collections: A Homiletic Tradition under Secular State ControlThe Significance of Ritual: Liturgical Turkification Contested Preaching Brotherhood to an Unruly NationDiyanet in Search of AutonomyWriting and Listening: Voices from Inside Pulpit Under Islamist BannerConclusions: The Secular Order Unhinged? Appendix I: Excerpts in original Turkish from Ahmet Hamdi Akseki’s 1927/28 hutbe collectionAppendix II: Hutbe topics in Turkish and English from Ahmet Hamdi Akseki’s 1936/37 hutbe collectionAppendix III: Turkish originals of hutbes selected from Diyanet Gazetesi 1971-79Appendix IV: Economic indicators and Diyanet statistics in tables.Bibliography