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From religious empires to secular states : state secularization in Turkey, Iran and Russia
- Title
- From religious empires to secular states : state secularization in Turkey, Iran and Russia / Birol Baskan.
- Author
- Başkan, Birol
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 202 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion that secularization of the state has been a unilinear, homogeneous and universal process, and has convincingly shown that secularization of the state has unfolded along different paths. Much, however, remains to be uncovered. This book provides an in-depth comparative historical analysis of state secularization in three major Eurasian countries: Turkey, Iran and Russia. To capture the aforementioned variation in state secularization across three countries that have been hitherto analyzed as separate studies, Birol Baskan adopts three modes of state secularization: accommodationism, separationism and eradicationism. Focusing thematically on the changing relations between the state and religious institutions, Baskan brings together a host of factors, historical, strategic and structural, to account for why Turkey adopted accommodationism, Iran separationism and Russia eradicationism. In doing so, he expertly demonstrates that each secularization strategy was a rational response to the strategic context the reformers found themselves in."--Publishers.
- Series Statement
- Conceptualising comparative politics: polities, peoples, and markets ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Conceptualising comparative politics ; 2.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the secular state and its three types -- Mobilizing sheikhs and ulama: religion and the Ottoman Empire -- Accommodationist state secularization in republican Turkey -- Appeasing the ulama: religion and the state in Iran -- Separationist state secularization in Pahlavi Iran -- Taming the church: religion and the Russian Empire -- Eradicationist state secularization in Soviet Union -- Conclusion: the fates of three models of secular states.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7993
- ISBN
- 9781138696396
- 1138696390
- 9780415743518
- 0415743516
- LCCN
- 2013040882
- 40023903399
- OCLC
- 861212082
- Author
- Başkan, Birol, author.
- Title
- From religious empires to secular states : state secularization in Turkey, Iran and Russia / Birol Baskan.
- Publisher
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Conceptualising comparative politics: polities, peoples, and markets ; 2Conceptualising comparative politics ; 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023903399
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7993