The Postmodern Guest of God: Popular “Sufism”
Journal Title: Moment Dergi - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
The proliferation of religious visibility in public life has been understood on political basis and interpreted only as a religious revival in Turkey in the post-1980 period. However, the period after the year 2000 when religion has intertwined with popular cultural forms, has witnessed the movement of religious forms from the margins of public life to the centre and their integration with mainstream culture as a new popular cultural trend at the same time. These two simultaneous developments have a two- sided effect. On the one hand, popular religious forms sacralise the mainstream culture and these forms are secularized within the mainstream culture on the other hand. The core of this two-sided development is a kind of mortal “sufism” reappeared in new context. The aim of this study is discussing this mortal revival of “sufism” which becomes the constituent element of postmodern religious subjectivity and mainstream culture.
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Adem Bolukbasi
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