Religion in Creating Populist Appeal: Islamist Populism and Civilizationism in the Friday Sermons of Turkey’s Diyanet
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In this article, the authors focus on Turkey and argue that by instrumentalizing the Diyanet (Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs), the authoritarian Islamists in power have been able to consolidate manufactured populist dichotomies via the weekly Friday sermons.About:
This article is published in Religion.The article was published on 2021-05-18 and is currently open access. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Populism & Authoritarianism.read more
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The Development of Secularism in Turkey
Guzine Dino,Niyazi Berkes +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the glimmerings 1718-1826: silhouette of a renaissance reaction against innovation the new social order and its fall, the breakthrough 1826-1878: foundations of a secular state Tanzimat the economic and political impact of the West the secularism of the Tanzimats the constitutional movement constitution of 1876.
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Religious and Pro-Violence Populism in Indonesia: The Rise and Fall of a Far-Right Islamist Civilisationist Movement
TL;DR: This paper examined the rise of religious populism in Indonesia through a study of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and identified the FPI as an Islamist civilizationist populist group and showed how the group frames Indonesian domestic political events within a larger cosmic battle between faithful and righteous Muslims and the forces that stand against Islam, whether they be "unfaithful Muslims" or non-Muslims.
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Religion as an Authoritarian Securitization and Violence Legitimation Tool: The Erdoğanist Diyanet’s Framing of a Religious Movement as an Existential Threat
Ihsan Yilmaz,Ismail Albayrak +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a state controlled religious institution used religion, fear, trauma, insecurity, grievances, and conspiracy theories to dehumanize a religious community, and presented it as an existential threat to the nation, the global community of believers and religion, by investigating the case of Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs' (the Diyanet) securitizing role under the authoritarian Islamist Erdoganist rule.
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The Emergence of Islamist Official and Unofficial Laws in the Erdoganist Turkey: The Case of Child Marriages
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the effect of Islamist legal pluralism on the formal legal system as well as the social implications of this plural socio-legal reality, particularly for vulnerable groups such as the poor, refugees, children, and women.
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Religion and Populism in the Global South: Islamist Civilisationism of Pakistan’s Imran Khan
Kainat Shakil,Ihsan Yilmaz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the fusion of Islamism and populism in Pakistan and found that Islamism is indeed a "homeland" or an idolized society defined by Islamist civilisationism to which extreme emotions, sentimentality and victimhood are attached.
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Populists, Outsiders and Anti-Establishment Politics
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The Development of Secularism in Turkey
Guzine Dino,Niyazi Berkes +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the glimmerings 1718-1826: silhouette of a renaissance reaction against innovation the new social order and its fall, the breakthrough 1826-1878: foundations of a secular state Tanzimat the economic and political impact of the West the secularism of the Tanzimats the constitutional movement constitution of 1876.