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Encountering Sufism in contemporary Istanbul -- Access, visibility, and mobility. Islam in Turkey after 1983 -- Gönenli's group : Sufi women constructing rooms of their own -- Get exuberant with zikir : women in command of commemorative prayers -- Political Sufism and spiritual Islamism

The article discusses muslim women and religious practices in Istanbul, Turkey. By using theories of globalization and the post-modern society, the author analyzes the possibilities in the politization of Islam for the active Muslim women as a way to become part of the social development.

The national elections in Turkey this April were not the expected success for the Islamist Fazilet Partisi (Virtue Party). Under its former name, Refah Partisi (Welfare Party), the party was the actual winner of the elections in late 1995, and many supporters were deeply disappointed at the result this spring. Why was the party weakened? Commentators inside and outside Turkey speculated from different points of view. Many of them portrayed issues in Turkish Islamism as questions relating to the party as an organization and with an apparent disinclination to regard the party as an umbrella for quite conflicting interests.

Chapter 1: I am the Granddaughter of the Sultan': Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries -- Chapter 2: Neo-Ottomanism versus Ottomania: Contestation of Gender in Historical Drama -- Chapter 3: Lovers of the Rose: Islamic Affect and the Politics of Commemoration in Turkish Museal Display -- Chapter 4: Between Memory and Forgetting and Purity and Danger: The Case of the Ulucanlar Prison Museum -- Chapter 5: Architectures of Domination? Ideology, Neoliberalism and the Built Environment of 'New Turkey' -- Chapter 6: Commemorating the First World War and its Aftermath: Neo-Ottomanism, Gender and the Politics of History in Turkey -- Chapter 7: The New Ottoman Henna Nights and Women in the Palace of Nostalgia -- Chapter 8: Claiming the Neo-Ottoman Mosque: Islamism, Gender, Architecture -- Chapter 9: Post-Truth and Anti-Science in Turkey: Putting it into Perspective -- Chapter 10: Mixed Marriage Patterns of Rum Orthodox, Jewish, and Armenian Communities of Istanbul: Gendering Ethno-Religious Boundaries -- Chapter 11: Epilogue: From the Past to the Future. .

Written by distinguished scholars from multiple perspectives, this account widens the interpretative scope on religious life among the pre-Christian Scandinavian people. The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor, and the end of the world approaching in Ragnarök. However, pre-Christian religion consisted of so much more than mythic imagery and legends, and has lingered for long in folk tradition. Exploring the religion of the North through an interdisciplinary approach, the book sheds new light on a number

A broad discussion about how history and religion contribute to identity politics in contemporary Europe, this book provides case studies exemplifying how public intellectuals and academics have taken an active part in the construction of recent and traditional pasts. Instead of repeating the simplistic explanation as a "return of religion," this volume focuses on public platforms and agents and their use of religion as a political and cultural argument. Filled with previously unpublished data-gathered from texts, interviews, field observations, artifacts, and material culture-this record chal