The rise and transformation of German political Catholicism (1848-1914) and Turkish political Islam (1970-2011)

Altınordu, Ateş (2013) The rise and transformation of German political Catholicism (1848-1914) and Turkish political Islam (1970-2011). Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 65 (Supple). pp. 383-408. ISSN 0023-2653 (Print) 1861-891X (Online)

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Abstract

While cultural assumptions of incommensurability lead to a dearth of cross-religious and cross-regional studies in the sociology of religion, such studies offer distinctive analytical opportunities for gaining empirically grounded general insights on religious politics. This article explores the rise and transformation of the German Center Party (1848–1914) and of Turkish Islamic parties (1970–2011) in comparative perspective. It is argued that the significant structural parallels in the trajectories of these religious parties stem from similarities in the policies of secularist actors and from common characteristics of the political structure in the two settings. The article concludes with a call for a relational approach that takes the political environment and interactions with secularist actors as constitutive of religious-political movements.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Religious parties; Political Catholicism; Political Islam
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity
J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc > BP1-253 Islam
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > European Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Social And Political Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Cultural Studies
Depositing User: Ateş Altınordu
Date Deposited: 12 Dec 2014 15:38
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 09:20
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/26323

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