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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

Turkey's global strategy: Turkey and Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
As the neighbouring state most comparable to Turkey in geographic, demographic and socio-economic size, relations with Iran differ from all other neighbourly relations, as Iran is considered Turkey’s equal.
Hentov, Elliot
core  

Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
wiley   +1 more source

Changing Balancing Behaviors in Turkish Foreign Policy During AKP Period (2002-2019)

open access: yesGazi Akademik Bakış, 2019
States’ foreign policies and their strategies to attain them are not fixed. When international and domestic dynamics change, policies and strategies may change.
Oktay BİNGÖL
doaj  

Trivialized Content, Elevated From: Aesthetics of Secrecy in Turkish Politics in the 2000s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay will first provide a brief history of the Islamist party\u27s coming to power by means of its effective use of a populist imagery. The paper will then focus on the emergence of a new regime of secrecy in Turkish politics by looking at two high-
Tatar, Doruk
core   +2 more sources

From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
wiley   +1 more source

Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
wiley   +1 more source

Hicab, türban, and democracy: religious freedom versus political protest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The attire of women, in particular the style of donning of the headscarves to cover the head, neck and the bosoms of women (türban) by pious Sunni women has once again become the center of controversy in Turkish higher education and politics. The amended
Kalaycioglu, M. Ersin
core   +1 more source

GNL3 Orchestrates AR Transcriptional Programs to Drive Castration‐Resistant Prostate Cancer and Immune Evasion

open access: yesAdvanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 26, 8 May 2026.
GNL3 is a novel AR coregulator with dual coactivator and corepressor functions in prostate cancer (PCa). Our study uncovers a previously unrecognized mechanism by which the AR transcriptional complex integrates oncogenic signaling and immune suppression.
Cuiting Zhang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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