2. Islam, politics and democracy in Turkey

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS 7
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Sources 11
5. 1. Structure and function in Turkish society 13
6. 2. Islam, politics and democracy in Turkey 29
7. 3. The demise of Republican Turkey's social contract? 43
8. 4. Integrating the rural: Gellner and the study of Anatolia 59
9. 5. Social change and culture: responses to modernization in an Alevi village in Anatolia 79
10. 6. Anthropology and ethnicity: the place of ethnography in the new Alevi movement 97
11. 7. Changing gender relations among Alevis and Sunnis in Turkey 109
12. 8. Studying secularism: modern Turkey and the Alevis 125
13. 9. The Open Society and Anthropology: an ethnographic example from Turkey 131
14. 10. Gellner and Islam 147
15. 11. Culturalism and social mobility: an Alevi village in Germany 167
16. 12. Ritual transfer and the reformulation of belief amongst the Turkish Alevi community in Europe 185
17. 13. Uneasy capitalism 207
18. 14. Inspired restraint: Development and the rural community 213
19. 15. An interview with Professor Paul Stirling 225