The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey

Caroline Tee is Professor of the Anthropology of Islam at the University of Chester, UK. Her research focuses on contemporary religion in Turkey, and she has carried out extensive ethnographic fieldwork amongst the Alevis and the community associated with Fethullah Gülen. She is author of The Gülen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity (London: IB Tauris, 2016) and her work has also been published in journals including British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Sociology of Islam, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Politics, Religion and Ideology, and Journal of Contemporary Religion. Professor Tee is editor of the Edinburgh Studies in the Anthropology of Islam series at Edinburgh University Press and, between 2024-27, she is Principal Investigator for "Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk", funded by Templeton Religion Trust. Fabio Vicini is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Verona, Italy, and founder and convener ofthe Muslim Worlds Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He is the author of Reading Islam: Life and Politics of Brotherhood in Modern Turkey (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2020). Located at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry in Anthropology, Islamic studies, and Social Theory, his research has investigated how, in the last one hundred years, Muslims in Turkey have been rethinking the Islamic tradition through the conceptual apparatus of modernity while continuing to rely on longstanding Islamic ideas of the self, discipline, connectivity, and transcendence. His work has been published, among other venues, in HAU - Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Culture and Religion, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Ethnicities, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.Philip Dorroll is Associate Professor of Religion at Wofford College, USA, and author of Islamic Theology in the Turkish Republic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Hereceived his Ph.D. in Religion from Emory University. His published research has focused on the history of modern Islamic theology in Turkish, classical Islamic theology in Arabic, and Eastern Christian theology in classical Arabic. His work been published in venues such as Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, Studies in World Christianity, Contemporary Islam, Review of Middle East Studies, and Religion Compass. His research on Islamic theology has been translated into Albanian, Bosnian, and Turkish. He is also current co-chair of the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit at the American Academy of Religion.

• 1. 100 Years of Religion in Turkey: Voices from the Center and the MarginsCaroline Tee, Fabio Vicini, and Philip Dorroll Part I. Religion Between Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic 2. Modern Islam and Reform in the Late Ottoman EmpireSusan Gunasti 3. Beyond the Dichotomy of Secular and Religious: Turkish Secularism, the State, and the DiyanetBerna Zengin Arslan 4. Religious Minorities and the Construction of Turkish IslamMarkus Dreßler 5. Kurdish Medrese in Ottoman and Republican TimesMartin van Bruinessen 6. A History of the Anatolian Kizilbas-Alevis (c.16th to early 20th century)Janina Karolewski and Benjamin Weineck Part II. Theological and Intellectual Trends in the 20th Century 7. 20th Century Turkish Theology: Remaking and RenewalPhilip Dorroll 8. Sufism in Republican TurkeyMark Soileau 9. Islamism in Republican TurkeyKaterina Dalacoura 10. The Secular and Religious: Or, What the Curious Lexicon of Turkish Neo-Spiritualism Might RevealKutlughan Soyubol Part III. Religious Life Between Rural and Urban Geographies 11. Performing Piety: Religion and Rural Life in TurkeyKimberly Hart 12. Cemaat and the city: Muslim Reconstruction in Modern TurkeyFabio Vicini 13. Urban Relations of the Sacred: Building and Storytelling in Republican TurkeyTimur Hammond 14. Twelver Shi'a in TurkeyStefan Williamson Fa Part IV. Religious Minority Groups: Histories and Experiences 15. Armenians in TurkeyTalin Suciyan 16. The Syrian Orthodox Community in Contemporary Turkey and the DiasporaKerith Miller 17. Eastern Orthodox Christians and the Ecumenical Patriarch of ConstantinopleAnna Maria Beylunioglu 18. The Ezidis of TurkeyChristine Robins 19. The Jewish Community in Modern and Contemporary TurkeyOzgur Kaymak Part V. Religion, Art, and Culture 20. Religion and Literature in Ottoman and Republican Turkey, 1850-1960Laurent Mignon 21. Hagia Sophia and Universal Power from Byzantium to the Modern WorldBissera V. Pentcheva 22. Islam and Music in TurkeyHarun Korkmaz and Martin Stokes 23. Screening Piety: Religion in Turkish Film and Television DramaPetra de Bruijn Part VI. Islam and Politics 24. Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement: Power, Controversy, and the 'Good Muslim' ParadigmKim Shively and Caroline Tee 25. Alevism and the Politics of Religious FreedomJeremy F. Walton and Çiçek Ilengiz 26. The Directorate of Religious Affairs: Family-related Religious Guidance Bureaus, and Female Religious Authority in TurkeyHikmet Kocamaner 27. From Cellhouses to the Parliament: Kurdish Hizbullah's Transformation and the AKP Governance in TurkeyMashuq Kurt Part VII. Transformations of Modern Turkey 28. Locating Women and the Expansion of Islamic Morality in the New Turkey: Anthropological and Sociological PerspectivesSertaç Sehlikoglu and Merve Kütük-Kuris 29. The LGBTI Community and Religious Context in TurkeyCenk Özbay 30. Turkey, Islam, and Turks in Europe: Postmigration TransnationalismThijl Sunier 31. Contemporary Languages of Science and Islam in Turkey: The Qur'an, Evolution, and CreationismYunus Dogan Telliel Part VIII. Contemporary Religious and Intellectual Trends 32. Islamic Feminism in TurkeyFeyza Burak-Adli 33. Public Islamic Intellectuals in TurkeyGokhan Bacik 34. Turkey's Religious Nones: Atheists, Deists, or Post-Muslims?Pierre Hecker 35. 21st Century Turkish Theology: Currents of Continuity and ContestationTaraneh R. Wilkinson Index