Religion as an Authoritarian Securitization and Violence Legitimation Tool: The Erdoğanist Diyanet’s Framing of a Religious Movement as an Existential Threat

The paper shows how a state controlled religious institution used religion, fear, trauma, insecurity, grievances, and conspiracy theories to dehumanise a religious community, and presented it as an existential threat to the nation, the global community of believers and religion, by investigating the...

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Authors: Yilmaz, Ihsan (Author) ; Albayrak, İsmail 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 8
Further subjects:B Islamism
B Turkey
B Asset-backed financing
B Violence
B Erdoğanism
B Diyanet
B Gülen Movement
B Authoritarianism
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