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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819535103321

Autore

Cinar Alev

Titolo

Modernity, Islam, and secularism in Turkey : bodies, places, and time / / Alev Cinar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn. : , : University of Minnesota Press

Bristol : , : University Presses Marketing [distributor], , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-8166-9632-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 199 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Public worlds ; ; v. 14

Classificazione

11.84

Disciplina

322.109561

Soggetti

Islam and secularism - Turkey

Islam and state - Turkey

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Performative politics and the public gaze -- Clothing the national body: Islamic veiling and secular unveiling -- Cities, squares and statues: the use of public space in the making of the nation -- Performing the nation: public contestations of national history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Alev Çinar's examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the threshold of East and West, of religious and secular nationalism, explores modernity through daily practices and the social construction of identity and political agency in relation to nationalism, secularism, and Islam. Using local details and debates-including an intriguing discussion of veiling-Çinar reveals modernity as a transformative intervention in bodies, places, and times.