Nation-building and Turkish modernization

The relationship between nation-building, Islam, and Islamism in Turkey / Rasim Özgür Dönmez -- Religion in the dialectic of Turkish nation-building and the case of justice and development party / Büke Koyuncu -- Nation-building and the religion-state relations in Turkey : the presidency of religious affairs / Ali Yaman -- Laiklik and nation-building : how state-religion-society relations changed in Turkey under the justice and the development party / Edgar Şar -- Nation-building and gender regime in Turkey / Senem Kurt Topuz -- Why Afet Inan had to measure skulls / Béatrice Hendrich -- Towards an Islamic patriarchal society in Turkey : changing gender roles in the secondary school social studies textbooks / Gül Arkan Akdağ -- (Re)construction of Turkish national identity in urban space : transformation of Istanbul's panorama under JDP rule / Seren Selvi Korkmaz..

Includes bibliographical references (notes at the end of each chapter) and index..

This book analyzes the nation building process in Turkey from a socio-historical perspective. Authors compare the nation-building process in the Republic period with the pro-Islamists of the JDP period..

This book analyzes the nation building process in Turkey from a socio-historical perspective. Authors compare the nation-building process in the Republic period with the pro-Islamists of the JDP period..