Why can’t Christians open a legally recognized place of worship? Why are Alevi cemevis not recognized by the State? Why are historical churches and monasteries owned by the State rather than by religious communities? Why must a State regulation be issued before a handful of non-Muslims can elect administrators for their foundations? Why can’t these […]
Religious Minorities in Turkey – report by Orhan Kemal Cengiz Read More »
The Century Foundation. Edited by Thanasis Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna. How do religious and nonreligious minorities envision their future in the region? On what basis can communities enjoy citizenship or seek rights in an era when law increasingly draws on religion and majoritarianism for its legitimacy? Contributors: Rohan Advani, Mustafa Akyol, Zaid alAli, Lina
Considers how varied and changing understandings of time
– as a religious, historic, and political category – shape how Turkish
Protestants practice their faith, understand who they are, and imagine
who they will be as Turkish citizens and as Christians during a period
of change and uncertainty. Eileen Sleesman Calderon.
Hak İhlalleri İzleme Raporu PDF Arka Plan, Giriş ve Özet. Türkiye Protestan Hristiyan toplumu, büyük çoğunluğu İstanbul, Ankara ve İzmir’de olmak üzere, irili ufaklı yaklaşık 150’den fazla kiliseden oluşmaktadır. Protestan toplulukların kurduğu 6 vakıf, 4 vakıf temsilciliği, 37 kilise derneği ve bu derneklere bağlı 30’un üzerinde temsilcilik bulunmaktadır. Geri kalan toplulukların bir tüzel kişiliği bulunmamaktadır.
2018 Hak Ihlalleri Izleme Raporu. Protestan Kiliseler Derneği Read More »
Link to full report. Summary: The Turkish Protestant community is made up of over 150 small and large fellowships, the majority of which are found in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. The Association of Protestant Churches was officially formed on Jan. 23, 2009. The Association of Protestant Churches continues to act as the Turkish Protestant community’s
2018 Human Rights Violations Report – Turkish Association of Protestant Churches Read More »
“Caste discrimination in Pakistan often involves its non-Muslim population and its Hindu past, and allows Muslims to minimize their own caste differences by projecting discrimination outward.” xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/opinion/caste-blasphemy-pakistan.html
NYT: How Caste Underpins the Blasphemy Crisis in Pakistan Read More »
More analysis of the Deizm controversy in Turkey: “The growing attraction of deism and atheism for religious youth in Turkey, emerging as it does during the peak political dominance of religious conservatism in Turkey, under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP, points–surprisingly–to an internal collapse of religiosity among the new generation of pious Turks.” Full article by Mucahit Bilici: https://www.academia.edu/37968958/The_Crisis_of_Religiosity_in_Turkish_Islamism?fbclid=IwAR1AbMxoc5UgdrSjk44YMFh-Jo6lOlsKPzbQLrGoIt_gGCcgzjwSEGG6P20
Mucahit Bilici: The Crisis of Religiosity in Turkish Islamism Read More »
Looking closely at the Christian communities this project asks how Jordan’s religious landscape is changing and what are the implication of these changes for Middle Eastern Christian communities. Merav Mack.
Changing Religious Landscape: Jordan 2018 Read More »
There is significant public debate in Turkey about young people being attracted to deism or atheism. See this collection of links via Jan-Markus Vömel: Recent discussions on religion and society in Turkey
Deism, Atheism and Religion – Recent discussions in Turkey Read More »
Jayson Casper – The Media Project. In the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, a delegation of imams approached the sultan in complaint. Western pressure forced the state to allow Christian churches to ring their bells. “Do they all ring at the same time?” the sultan asked. No, he was told. “Then don’t worry,” he
In Time for Orthodox Easter, A Turkish Declaration of Christian Unity Read More »
