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The Nationalist Action Party in the 2011 Elections The Limits
The Nationalist Action Party in the 2011 Elections: The Limits of Oscillating Between State and Society

The MHP won 13 percent of the vote in the June 2011 elections, which guaranteed it 52 seats in parliament. Ever since the...

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Why Turkey Needs a Post-Kemalist Order
Why Turkey Needs a Post-Kemalist Order

The process of making a new constitution has prompted a debate about the place of Kemalism in the supreme normative order...

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Representations and Othering in Discourse The Construction of Turkey in
Representations and Othering in Discourse: The Construction of Turkey in the EU Context

Notwithstanding its somewhat misleading title, this book focuses exclusively on the representations of Turkey in the...

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Terror and Tolerance A Review of Leaving Without Losing The
Terror and Tolerance: A Review of Leaving Without Losing: The War on Terror After Iraq and Afghanistan

Americans are in the middle of an election season, and even though American democracy is imperfect, there is little doubt...

Monday, April 1, 2013

Secularism and Religion-Making
Secularism and Religion-Making

Recent scholarship in the sociology of religion has produced fresh perspectives on the understanding of religion and its...

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

No Establishment of Religion America s Original Contribution to Religious
No Establishment of Religion America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty

John Witte, Jr., the Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and Jeremy Gunn, a...

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Democracy Islam and Secularism in Turkey
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

Democracy, Islam and Secularism in Turkey, edited by Ahmet Kuru and Alfred Stepan, decribes the so-called “Turkish model”...

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

The Future of Religious Freedom Global Challenges
The Future of Religious Freedom Global Challenges

Recently, there has been a growing body of literature on the multifaceted relationship between religion, politics and...

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Religion and State in Belgium
Religion and State in Belgium

This article focuses on the complex question of state-religion relations in Belgium and examines definition of...

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Secularism Modern State and Homo Religiosus Societies
Secularism, Modern State, and Homo Religiosus Societies

Religion has always been an overriding theme among social scientists, politicians, diplomats and laymen. While the...

Wednesday, July 1, 2015


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