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The Sociology And Anthropology Of Secularism: From Genealogy/Power To The Multiple Manifestations Of The Secular
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)
Inspired by the seminal work of Talal Asad, important studies, both within and outside anthropology, have pointed to secularism as a modern ideology resting on a distinction between “secular” and “religious” domains whose ...
Lived Islam In Post-Soviet Russia: Officials, Experts, And Ordinary Interpretations Of Islam
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020)
Recent anthropological scholarship on Islam has tended to carve out the ‘everyday’ as a space of Muslim life that has the potential to escape the normativity of religious discourses. In this paper, I discuss how the special ...
Pedagogies of affection: The Role Of Exemplariness And Emulation In Learning Processes-Extracurricular Islamic Education In The Fethullah Gülen Community In Istanbul
(2013)
Based on a fieldwork experience of cohabitation within Gülen community's housing system, the article analyzes the way older students act as both role models and sympathetic guides for younger students' spiritual maturation ...
Interiority Unbound: Sufi And Modern Articulations Of The Self
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
This issue investigates the ways in which the Sufi repertoire of heuristic categories of intellectual and spiritual maturation (e.g. batin, spiritual growth, intuitional knowledge and inner awareness) may converge, intersect, ...
Narrative islamiche di partecipazione civica. Libertà, responsabilità e attivismo religioso nella Turchia contemporanea
(Religioni e societa, 2019)
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2010 with young students living within two Islamic communities in contemporary Turkey, the paper sheds light on narratives of religiously-grounded civic engagement within these ...
Turkish Islamism, Conservatism And Human Rights Before And After Gezi: The Case Of Mazlumder
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
Focusing on Mazlumder, an Islamist human rights organization, the paper sheds light on the complex articulation of Islamism and human rights discourse in post-2002 Turkey. Based on fieldwork and on the analysis of the ...
Thinking Through The Heart: Islam, Reflection And The Search For Transcendence
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
The paper explores the dynamics of internalisation and externalisation of the self in relation to transcendence within reading practices of key Islamic texts in the Suffa community in Istanbul. Based on fieldwork and textual ...
Pregare non è tutto : volontarismo, neoliberismo e vita musulmana nella Turchia di oggi
(Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2019)
Pregare non ètutto: volontarismo, neoliberismo e vita musulmana nella Turchia di oggi
Per una antropologia della lettura: Islam, riflessione e modernità nella comunità Suffa di Istanbul
(Rivista Della Società İtaliana di Antropologia Culturale, 2019)
L’articolo indaga le pratiche di lettura di un testo islamico, il Risale-i Nur, presso la comunità Suffa, una delle molte che fanno parte del movimento riformista Nur, il più influente della Turchia moderna. L’articolo si ...
“Worship is not Everything:” Volunteering and Muslim Life in Modern Turkey
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020)
This chapter investigates the way Turkish Muslim volunteers in the faith-based organization Deniz Feneri think of their activism. It investigates how Muslim forms of commitment have emerged and changed in shape and meaning ...
