Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey

Anthropocratic Republic

By:

Christopher Houston

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

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In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy. In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine. In distinguishing anthropocracy from varieties of other secular and laicist political arrangements, as well as from theocracy, this book also gives readers a brilliant solution to what it calls the Turkish puzzle, the dilemma over how to best describe and analyze state-religion and state-society relations in the Turkish Republic. This work convincingly undermines two orthodox presumptions about Turkish politics: the claim that Turkish modernity should be considered an example of secularity; and the accusation that the current AKP government should be interpreted as Islamic. On the contrary, it argues that both Kemalism and the AKP continue to institute an anthropocratic Republic.

Author Biography:

Christopher Houston is Discipline Chair of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Turkey on Islamic social movements, nationalism, urban processes in Istanbul, and on the Kurdish issue. His most recent book is titled Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d’état, and Memory in Turkey (California University Press, 2020). He was President of the Australian Anthropological Society in 2014/2015.

Release date Australia

August 13th, 2021

Author

Christopher Houston

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2021

Illustrations

2 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 106 p. 2 illus.

Pages

106

Series

Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

ISBN-13

9783030796563

Product ID

35104411

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