Muslimism in Turkey and Beyond Religion in the Modern World [Hardcover]

This book identifies a new Islamic form in Turkey: Muslimism. Neither fundamentalism nor liberal religion, Muslimism engages modernity through Islamic categories and practices. This new form has implications for discussions of democracy and Islam in the region, similar movements across religious traditions, and social theory on religion.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Turkey's Muslimists: From Veil-Chic Women to a new political ethos
1. From Forbidden Modern to Guiltless Modernity
2. Muslimism versus Islamism
3. Muslimist Religious Temperaments
4. Muslimist Cultural Orientations and Everyday Life
5. Muslimist Political Ethos

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Neslihan Cevik is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, USA. She is an engaged social entrepreneur whose work has appeared in CNN-Arabic, Daily Sabah, OrientXXI, and Political Theology Today and has been translated into Arabic, French, and Turkish.

Neslihan Cevik has written a groundbreaking book on the social, religious, and political transformation of Islam in contemporary Turkey. The innovations represented by what she calls 'Muslimism' portend profound changes for Turkey and, quite possibly, other parts of the Islamic world. Theoretically grounded, empirically rich, and cogently written, this book is essential reading for all interested in the fate of Islam in late modernity. James Davison Hunter, Labrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of

Religion, Culture, and Social Theory, University of Virginia, USA

With insight and nuance, Neslihan Cevik breathes fresh air into scholarship on Islam in Turkey. Showing the deficiencies of conventional categories, Cevik develops the concept of 'Muslimism' to understand how Muslims engage markets, party politics, and civic society blC*