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Beyond Sacred and Secular - Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey (Hardcover)
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Beyond Sacred and Secular - Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey (Hardcover)
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The global rise of political religion is one of the defining and
most puzzling characteristics of current world politics. Since the
early 1990s, religious parties have achieved stunning electoral
victories around the world.
"Beyond Sacred and Secular" investigates religious politics and its
implications for contemporary democracy through a comparison of
political parties in Israel and Turkey. While the politics of
Judaism and Islam are typically seen as outgrowths of
oppositionally different beliefs, Sultan Tepe's comparative inquiry
shows how limiting this understanding of religious politics can be.
Her cross-country and cross-religion analysis develops a unique
approach to identify religious parties' idiosyncratic and shared
characteristics without reducing them to simple categories of
religious/secular, Judeo-Christian/Islamic, or
democratic/antidemocratic. Tepe shows that religious parties in
both Israel and Turkey attract broad coalitions of supporters and
skillfully inhabit religious and secular worlds simultaneously.
They imbue existing traditional ideas with new political messages,
blur conventional political lines and allegiances, offer strategic
political choices, and exhibit remarkably similar political views.
This book's findings will be especially relevant to those who want
to pass beyond rudimentary typologies to better assess religious
parties' capacities to undermine and contribute to liberal
democracy. The Israeli and Turkish cases open a window to better
understand the complexities of religious parties. Ultimately, this
book demonstrates that the characteristics of religious political
parties--whether Jewish, Muslim, or yet another religion--can be as
strikingin their similarities as in their differences.
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