From Religious Empires to Secular States: State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia

by Birol Başkan

Book Overview

In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion that secularization of the state has been a unilinear, homogeneous and universal process, and has convincingly shown that secularization of the state has unfolded along different paths. Much, however,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415743516
• ISBN13: 9780415743518
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"