Beyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey » (1)

Sultan Tepe is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Comparing the politics of Judaism and Islam, this book demonstrates that common religious political party characteristics in Israel and Turkey can be as striking as their differences.

Introduction Beyond sacred and secular : a comparative analysis of religious politics in Israel and Turkey 1

Pt. I Paradox of modernity? : the conundrum of religion in politics

1 Politics of religion : competing and coalescing conceptualizations 33

2 Religion in the making of the Israeli and Turkish nation-states : incomplete debates and continuing institutional reformations 65

Pt. II Ideologues or pragmatists? : the ideas and ideologies of religious politics

3 Representing the sacred in mundane politics : the ideologies and leaders of Mafdal and Shas 103

4 Representing Islam in secular politics : the ideologies and leaders of the Nationalist Action, the National View, and the Justice and Development Parties 159

Pt. III The popular roots of religious parties

5 Between Zionism and Judaism? : religious party supporters in Israel 229

6 Between Laicism and Islam? : religious party supporters in Turkey 283

Conclusion Sacro-secular encounters : a comparative model of religious parties 343

Notes 371

Index 407