And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey

by Kimberly Hart and Kimberly Hart

Book Overview

Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages, this book considers rural spiritual practices and describes a living, evolving Sunni Islam, influenced and transformed by local and national sources...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804786607
• ISBN13: 9780804786607
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"