In contemporary Turkey, a plethora of Muslim NGOs, spanning the sectarian divide between Sunni and Alevi Muslims, has called into question statist sovereignty over Islam. Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey is an ethnographic study of these institutions and their distinctive, nongovernmental politics of religious freedom.
Jeremy F. Walton's Muslim Civil Society weaves together ethnographic insight and conceptual erudition in the quest to discern the place of religion in contemporary Turkey. His ethnography of three Muslim civil society networks and their engagement with the conditions of 'liberal governmentality' breaks new ground: It provides an intimate perspective on the actors and processes that shape Turkey's contested modernities and their permanent crises.
