Secularism, Religion, and Identification beyond Binaries: The Transnational Alliances, Rapprochements, and Dissent of German Turks in Germany

Nil Mutluer
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Nil Mutluer: Humboldt University, Berlin

International Journal of Religion, 2020, vol. 1, issue 1, 105-119

Abstract: This article discusses the ways in which power-based socio-political shifts in Turkey during the AKP (Justice and Development Party) era transnationally influence the relations between and within the Muslim German Turkish communities and their organizations in Germany. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and reflexive discourse analysis, this article takes DITIB (The Turkish Islamic Union of Religious Affairs) in Germany, which is the affiliateorganization of Diyanet (The Presidency of Religious Organization) in Turkey, and analyses its relations with other German Turkish organizations such as Milli Görüş (The Islamic Community of National Vision) and the Gülen Movement in Germany. Such analysis reveals the dynamics of competition between secular and religious, as well as intra-religious, actors and how their members claim their religious and socio-political rights beyond binaries.

Keywords: Religion; Diyanet/DITIB; Milli Görüş; GülenMovement; German Turks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.33182/ijor.v1i1.1201

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