Islamist Populist Nation-Building
Gradual, Ad Hoc Islamisation of the Secular Education System in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3363457 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ihsan Yilmaz (0000-0001-8409-3045, Deakin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 814 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13090814 |
| OpenAlex | W4294142962 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
The founders of the secular Turkish Republic, the Kemalists used secular nationalist education to build a secular Turkish nation and to create their own version of modern pro-Western secular Turkish citizens. This paper argues that Turkey's current ruling party, the AKP (Justice and Development Party) has been using the same system of education to create its own desired citizens with Islamist Populist ideals. This has been done without changing the secular principles of the constitution and laws on national education since there are several constraints that would prevent AKP to have open and declared pro-Sharia changes to the law. Thus, unlike many other Islamists in the other parts of the world, the paper shows that the AKP has chosen to undermine the secularity of the system, constitution, and law in an ad hoc, gradual and undeclared fashion. The paper concludes by noting that no matter the change in political actors and their ideologies, education is monopolized by the state for political purposes
Constitution · Economic Justice · Ideology · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Secular education · Secular state · Secularism · Secularity · Sociology · Turkish · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Faith and force
Film-Making the Nation Great Again
Religious Necropolitical Propaganda in Educational Materials for Children
Civilizational Populism in Domestic and Foreign Policy
Old Wine in a New Bottle
Muslim Laws, Politics and Society in Modern Nation States
Creating a pious generation
Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion
Turkish Staatsvolk vs. Kurdish identity
Education as Battleground
State, Law, Civil Society and Islam in Contemporary Turkey
Conflicts of Religious Education in a Secular State
Use of past collective traumas, fear and conspiracy theories for securitization of the opposition and authoritarianisation
Securitisation via functional actors and authoritarian resilience
Creating the Desired Citizen
Pro-Violence Sermons of a Secular State
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |