Making of a Postsecular Society

Taylor & Francis

The Making of a Postsecular SocietyA Durkheimian Approach to Memory, Pluralism and Religion in Turkey\nAuthor(s): Massimo Rosati\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472423122, 978-1472423122\nSynopsis\nDrawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies. Neo-Durkheimian categories are applied to the case of Turkey, which in recent years has shifted from a strong Republican and Kemalist view of secularism to a more Anglo-Saxon perspective. Turkish society thus constitutes an interesting case that blurs modernist distinctions between the secular and the religious and which could be described as postsecular. Presenting three symbolic case studies - the enduring image of the founder of the Republic Atatrk, the contested site of Ayasofia, and the remembering and commemoration of the murdered journali.