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Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey - Anthropocratic Republic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey - Anthropocratic Republic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a
particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls
anthropocracy. In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies
de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to
stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the
while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine. In
distinguishing anthropocracy from varieties of other secular and
laicist political arrangements, as well as from theocracy, this
book also gives readers a brilliant solution to what it calls the
Turkish puzzle, the dilemma over how to best describe and analyze
state-religion and state-society relations in the Turkish Republic.
This work convincingly undermines two orthodox presumptions about
Turkish politics: the claim that Turkish modernity should be
considered an example of secularity; and the accusation that the
current AKP government should be interpreted as Islamic. On the
contrary, it argues that both Kemalism and the AKP continue to
institute an anthropocratic Republic.
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