Pulpit, Mosque and Nation

Turkish Friday Sermons as Text and Ritual

Elisabeth Özdalga (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474488204 (ISBN)

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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. With an all-pervading sermon theme of social, national and political unity, Elisabeth Özdalga explores how long-standing religious rituals are utilised and mobilised in the formation of modern political loyalties and national identities.

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 Banner

The Hutbe in Historical Perspective
Early Authorized Hutbe Collections: A Homiletic Tradition under Secular State Control
The Significance of Ritual: Liturgical Turkification Contested
Preaching Brotherhood to an Unruly Nation
Diyanet in Search of Autonomy
Writing and Listening: Voices from Inside
Pulpit Under Islamist Banner

Conclusions: The Secular Order Unhinged?

Appendix I: Excerpts in original Turkish from Ahmet Hamdi Akseki’s 1927/28 hutbe collection

Appendix II: Hutbe topics in Turkish and English from Ahmet Hamdi Akseki’s 1936/37 hutbe collection

Appendix III: Turkish originals of hutbes selected from Diyanet Gazetesi 1971-79

Appendix IV: Economic indicators and Diyanet statistics in tables.

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2022
Zusatzinfo	6 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781474488204 / 9781474488204
Zustand	Neuware