Abstract This article problematizes the study of religious nationalism, which lacks conceptual, religious, and nationalist “seriousness.” These problems “seriousness” obscure nature nationalism as they overstretch do not justice to concepts religion, respectively. Seeking for a path it is suggested that later writings İsmet Özel, well-known poet public intellectual in Turkey, make an emblematic...

If we step back and consider the words around which critiques and debates have crystallized in recent years, some have been relatively clear, while others have been constantly in need of disambiguation. Even during the most drawn-out of debates over “nationalism” or “revolution,” and despite the arguments over definitions and typologies, we had the sense that we were all talking about the same ...

Indian society was diverse and complex in nature from its emergence marred with communal conflicts. Hence, it inevitable for the founding fathers of state to adopt an inclusive political system based on democracy, secularism, pluralism achieve unity diversity. Due self-centric mindset succeeding politicians who began drift away these ideals, secularism has been declining a long time. The appall...

this study deals with the turkish foreign policies on the basis of its cultural and ideological background. the main question asks about the most powerful cultural and ideological factors driving turkey’s foreign policies. the research emphasizes mainly on kemalism and islamism as two main independent variables. kemalism or ataturkism consists of some basic principles including nationalism, sec...

The public and academic debate on the relation between Islam and secularism has been forcefully revived since 9/11 and the “Arab Spring”. Especially essentialist and monolithic depictions by Western scholars have claimed the incompatibility of Islam with secularism as a prerequisite for democracy. Another strand of literature claims that evidence of Islam’s democratic essence (Esposito and Voll...

This contribution studies comparatively three Southern European countries (Italy, Spain, and Greece) Southeastern (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria). Looking beyond historical path-dependencies, we investigate recent developments in terms of state-religion relations. Starting with a thick description the legacies post-1989 developments, focus on issues last decade, such as rise populism na...

nationalism and modernism, and the relationship between them from the perspective of different scholars and schools of thought have always been a subject of debate. many scholars have concerned themselves with the concepts of ethnicity, nation, and nationalism and their relationship with modernism and modern age. the main controversy among scholars and schools of thought has been centered on th...

in this article, religiosity status of people and different social groups in the city of tehran based on clark and stark’s analytic and theoretical models have been considered. with regard to these two viewpoints, the main aim of this research is to study and identify faith, affection, rituals, conceptual and consequential of people’s religiosity. the main question is that whether results of pr...