Compliance or negotiation? Diyanet’s female preachers and the diffusion of a ‘true’ religion in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19004166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chiara Maritato (0000-0002-3159-6631, University of Turin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 530-545 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0037768617727487 |
| OpenAlex | W2762735670 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article addresses the religious activities of the female preachers ( vaizeler) employed by the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It investigates the extent to which, and how, the activities carried out by the Diyanet’s vaizeler are in compliance with a state attempt to standardise and control female religious engagement. As religious officers, the vaizeler both spread and embody an organised religion. However, far from any dichotomous perspective, to assert their religious authority the Diyanet’s preachers navigate daily between compliance with the institution’s dogmas and negotiation with a plurality of interpretations labelled as unofficial, popular and traditional. To fully assess this issue, this article refers to ethnographic observations of everyday vaizeler’s preaching activities in Istanbul’s mosques. Conducted between 2013 and 2014, these observations are crucial for contextualising the evolution of the Turkish state monopoly over religious affairs, particularly in the aftermath of the July 2016 attempted coup
Compliance (psychology) · Ethnography · Institution · Negotiation · Perspective (graphical) · Piety · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · State (computer science) · Turkish · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Reshaping Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkey
Women and Gender in Islam
Women, Leadership, and Mosques
Turkey’s Diyanet under AKP rule
Secularism and State Policies toward Religion
The Development of Secularism in Turkey
Performing Irşad
The New Islamists’ Understanding of Democracy in Turkey
Islam, Nation-State, and the Military
A Transformed Kemalist Islam or a New Islamic Civic Morality? A Study of “Religious Culture and Morality” Textbooks in the Turkish High School Curricula
Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents
Le Confra Ternite Turche e Kemal Atatürk
The Ottoman Foundation of the Turkish Republic's Diyanet
State, Law, Civil Society and Islam in Contemporary Turkey
Diyanet and Politics
Women Preaching for the Secular State
Parameters and Strategies of Islam–State Interaction in Republican Turkey
Contesting political theologies of Islam and democracy in Turkey
Policy Change and Discourse in Europe
The Women Preachers of the Secular State
Organizational Ethnography
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
Passive and Assertive Secularism
Under Western Eyes
Taming Islam
Secularism and Freedom of Conscience
Religious Socialization and Female Subjectivity
Doing Religion' In a Secular World
Pedagogies of Affection
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |