In this interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey, Andrew Davison demonstrates the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. A hermeneutic approach, he argues, illuminates the complex relations between religion and politics in post-Ottoman Turkey and, more broadly, between politics and matters of culture, tradition, national identity, and conscience in the modern world.

Yale University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 9780300069365. 270 pp.
Hardcover. Near fine in a very good jacket.
Jacket spine faded.