Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration

by Andrew Davison

Book Overview

In this new interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey, Andrew Davison demonstrates the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. A hermeneutic approach, he argues, is essential in understanding the complex relations between politics and religion in post-Ottoman Turkey-and, more broadly, between politics and matters of culture throughout the modern world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300069367
• ISBN13: 9780300069365
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"