TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hart,Kimberly
TI  - And then we work for God: rural Sunni Islam in western Turkey 
SN  - 0804786682 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BP63.T8 H27 2013
U1  - 297.8/109562 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Islam and culture
KW  - Rural population
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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