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Subject(s)

• Islam—Turkey—Ankara [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Turkey—Ankara [Browse]
• Muslim women—Religious life—Turkey—Ankara [Browse]
• Ankara (Turkey)—Religious life and customs [Browse]

Series

• Routledge Islamic studies [More in this series]
• Routledge Islamic studies series [More in this series]

Summary note

"The book evaluates on-going ethical conversations to learn how emotional communication is received, teachings internalized, and a religious world-view brought to life. Exploring how religious values saturate people's consciousness to induce subtle shifts in moral and ethical sensibilities, this book is about people's practices that illuminate how Islam is lived. Based on fieldwork conducted in Ankara between 2010-2016, the study enquires into people's ethical, religious, and moral motivations, through the use of the ethnographic method and "thick description". Conversations and interviews with officials, community leaders, students, entrepreneurs, professionals, and blue-collar workers, were subjected to close scrutiny to foreground societal change and churning. To capture perspectives absent or deliberately overlooked in mainstream public discourse and scholarship, fieldwork was conducted in locations ranging from homes, offices, university dorms, and the shrines of saints. In listening closely to how people talk about their religious practices, the book addresses the question of how Islamic subjectivities are being forged in Turkey. The study unveils how people are pushed to re-think old practices and attitudes in the process of reinterpreting Islam in the light of contemporary concerns. Filling a gap in the literature where micro-level, grounded analyses of culture and society are relatively rare, the book is a key resource for readers interested in anthropology of religion and gender, ethnography, Turkey and the Middle East"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : Art of Ethical Conversation in Turkey
• Reading the Risale-Nur in a women's sohbet
• The "modernity" of zakat in Turkey
• Healing the social body : sohbet with Ankara's Alevi saint
• Art of dreaming : at the tombs of saints
• Discourse in the dorms
• On places of worship and Diyanet.

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ISBN

• 9781138391192 ((hardback))
• 1138391190

LCCN

2019031590

OCLC

1113330637

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