Dialectical Encounters
Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474441537
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 28/02/2019
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Discussions of Islam in Turkey are still heavily dominated by political considerations and the dualistic paradigms of modern v. traditional, secular v. religious. Yet there exists a body of Muslim institutions in the country – Turkish theology faculties – whose work overcomes ideological divisions. By engaging with Turkish theology in its theological rather than political concerns, this book sheds light on complex Muslim voices in the context of a largely Western and Christian modernity.
Featuring the work of Recep Alpyagil and Saban Ali Düzgün, this innovative study provides a concise survey of Turkish Muslim positions on religious pluralism and atheism as well as detailed treatments of both critical and appreciative Turkish Muslim perspectives on Western Christianity. The result is a critical reframing of the category of modernity through the responses of Turkish theologians to the Western intellectual tradition.
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction: Turkish Muslim "Theology" and Religion in Turkey
2. Roots and Authorities: Resituating Revisionist and Ankara Paradigms in Light of Other Authorities
Part II: The Individual and Authority in Dialectical Continuity
3. Alpyagil’s Case for Canon
4. Inclusions and the Role of the Individual
Part III: A Theological Anthropology of Empowerment
5. Düzgün’s Case for a Religion of Freedom
6. Human Agency, Responsibility, and Ta w?id
Part IV: Conclusions
7. From Dialectics to Direct Address: Turkish Theologians on Atheism and Other Religions
8. Conclusion: Reflections on Turkish Islam, Modernity, and Dialogue
Bibliography, Index