03022cam a2200541Li 4500 ocn847609670 OCoLC 20200709060104.0 m d cr |n| 130610s2013 cau ob 001 0 eng d YDXCP YDXCP OCLCO E7B MHW N$T 0804786682 (electronic bk.) 9780804786683 (electronic bk.) 9780804783309 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804783306 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804786607 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804786607 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)847609670 713316 (N$T) a-tu--- BP63.T8 H27 2013 REL 037000 bisacsh 297.8/109562 23 N$TA Hart, Kimberly, 1967- author. And then we work for God [electronic resource] : rural Sunni Islam in western Turkey / Kimberly Hart. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (pages cm) Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : competing claims to religious authority -- Secular time and the individual -- Islamic time and the village -- Good deeds and the moral economy -- Constructing Islam : mosques, men, and the state -- Women's traditions and innovations -- Ritual purification and the pernicious danger of culture -- Secular and spiritual routes to knowledge -- An entrepreneurial 'neo-tarikat' and Islamic education -- Dealing with the secular world : a trip to the beach. Description based on print version record. Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages, this book considers rural spiritual practices and describes a living, evolving Sunni Islam, influenced and transformed by local and national sources of religious orthodoxy.Drawing on a decade of research, Kimberly Hart shows how religion is not an abstract set of principles, but a comp Islam Turkey Customs and practices. Islam and culture Turkey. Rural population Turkey. Turkey Religious life and customs. RELIGION / Islam / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: 9780804783309 0804783306 9780804786607 0804786607 (DLC) 2013013864 http://site.ebrary.com/id/10716106 ebrary EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=713316 YBP Library Services YANK 10750771 ebrary EBRY ebr10716106 EBSCOhost EBSC 713316 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 54591 54591