RT Book
T1 Disciples of the state?: religion and state-building in the former Ottoman world
A1 Fabbe, Kristin E.
LA English
PP Cambridge New York, NY Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1665713488
AB As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the divergent religion-state power configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such difference have contributed to failures of liberal democratic consolidation
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL65.S8
SN 9781108409452
SN 9781108419086
K1 Religion and state : Egypt
K1 Nation-building : Egypt
K1 Religion and state : Greece
K1 Nation-building : Greece
K1 Religion and state : Turkey
K1 Nation-building : Turkey
DO 10.1017/978-1-108-296878