Tepe, Sultan, 1969-

Beyond Sacred and Secular : Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey / Sultan Tepe. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008. - viii, 413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - 324.2561/082 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-405) and index.

Politics of religion : competing and coalescing conceptualizations -- Religion in the making of the Israeli and Turkish nation-states : incomplete debates and continuing institutional reformations -- Representing the sacred in mundane politics : the ideologies and leaders of Mafdal and Shas -- Representing Islam in secular politics : the ideologies and leaders of the Nationalist Action, the National View, and the Justice and Development Parties -- Between Zionism and Judaism? : religious party supporters in Israel -- Between Laicism and Islam? : religious party supporters in Turkey.

9780804758642 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804758646 (cloth : alk. paper)


Religion and politics.
Judaism and politics--Israel.
Democracy--Israel.
Political parties--Israel.
Islam and politics--Turkey.
Democracy--Turkey.
Political parties--Turkey.

324.2561/082