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From Religious Empires to Secular States: State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia - Conceptualising Comparative Politics Baskan, Birol (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar.) 1st edition
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From Religious Empires to Secular States: State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia - Conceptualising Comparative Politics
Baskan, Birol (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar.)
In 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 Ba?kan adopts three modes of state secularization: accommodationism, separationism and eradicationism. Focusing thematically on the changing relations between the state and religious institutions, Ba?kan 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.
202 pages, 4 black & white tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 31, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138696396 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 202 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 317 g |
| Language | English |
