Writing in The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton raises issues central to secularism as they pertain to Turkey's Alevi, a religious…
Secularism and Alevism
Turkey
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
The 9/11 debate was centered on a single issue: Islam. Osama Bin Laden was taken at his own words by…
Erdogan’s redirecting of religious winds
Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, speaks to the drastically changing religious climate in…
A tale of two flotillas
Given the close relationship, globally, between religious political action and religious charities, it should come as no surprise that there…
Islam and the compulsion of the political
Invariably, contemporary discussions of Islam seem to begin and end with the relationship between Islam and politics—both anti-Islamic pundits and…
Religion and democracy
Over at Boston Review, Princeton political scientist Jan-Werner Müller has written a lengthy article considering the rise of Christian (Catholic)…
In Turkey, religious and secular living side by side
In many large cities around the world, religious people and secular people tend to live in separate neighborhoods. This has…
The rise of “Islamic” broadcasting in Turkey
Before the liberalization of broadcasting in Turkey, the state-owned broadcaster TRT considered Islam a “religion” that could be represented only…
Secular representations of religion on Turkish television
Television broadcasting has played a significant role in the creation of a public governed by norms of secular reason in…
Letter from Istanbul
I have come to Turkey at a time when discussions of a “shift in the axis” of Turkey’s foreign policy…