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In both media accounts and scholarship, contemporary Turkey draws much attention as a hotbed of contestation between Islamists and secularists. Indeed, the ban of the popularly elected Islamist Welfare Party and of the headscarf in universities in 1998 reinforced an already predominant dichotomy between the repressively secular state and the Muslim actors. What deserves more attention, however, is the transformation in state-society relations since the late 1990s.
From a state-society perspective, the recent secularist backlash remains understudied. Why does the secularist discontent peak at a time when Muslim actors in Turkey seem to have secularized and integrated into the secular polity and capitalist market? The answer lies in the shifting patterns of interaction between the secular state and Muslim actors. While Islamists abandoned their radical edge and integrated into the secular system and free market, the ability of the Turkish state to accommodate religion has likewise expanded. Put differently, through its nonconfrontational interactions with Islamists, the Turkish state has experimented with greater capacities for accommodating religious piety and politics. While admittedly this increased tolerance has not always been smooth or unilinear, the long-term trend has been toward "the politics of engagement"—that is, everyday negotiations and cooperation between Muslims and the secular state.

Introduction: state and society: neither lovers nor haters / Berna Turam and Monica M. Ringer. - S. 353-359 The dynamic nature of educational policies and Turkish nation building: where does religion fit in? / Yesim Bayar. - S. 360-370 Islam, nation-state, and the military: a discussion of secularism in Turkey / Sinem Gürbey. - S. 371-380 A transformed Kemalist Islam or a new Islamic civic morality? A study of "religious culture and morality" : textbooks in the Turkish high school curricula / Buket Türkmen. - S. 381-397 Christian and Turkish: secularist fears of a converted nation / Esra Özyürek. - S. 398-412 Does secularism face a serious threat in Turkey? / Metin Heper. - S. 413-422 The urban dynamism of Islamic hegemony: absorbing squatter creativity in Istanbul / Cihan Tugal. - S. 423-437 The synergy between neoliberalism and communitarianism: "Erdoğan's third way" / Marcie J. Patton. - S. 438-449 Women's choices of head cover in Turkey: an empirical assessment / Ali Çarkoglu. - S. 450-467