Berger’s concept of pluralism describes an era that favors experimentation and experiences, as pluralism is not only ‘enabling’ but more importantly ‘compelling’ individuals to keep choosing among diverse secular and religious discourses. This concept is strengthened on the personal level by Berger’s ‘pluralism in the mind’, and Taylor’s ‘paradigmatically Jamesian era,’ capturing universal shifts while allowing the incorporation of local contexts. Therefore, the narratives about personal religiosity in the private sphere, employed in this paper, shift from decline to experimentation, authenticity, and constant meaning-making within the context of Türkiye’s religious-political landscape. The diverse personal practices, gathered through twelve interviews, show the transformation of an Alevi group’s attitudes toward religions in Izmir, the third largest city in Türkiye. Based on these cases, the paper proposes a four-tiered framework of engagement with various religious and secular discourses: identity, experimentation, connection, and awareness.
Building on Juan Linz’s well-known distinction between political religion and politicized religion, this contribution adopts the latter perspective, which involves the instrumentalization of religion for political purposes. Within this framework, the article advances the hypothesis that a new form of religiosity is eme...
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Recent philosophers of secularization have given religion a more central place in their thinking about secular modernity and liberal democracy. This article argues that such theories have overlooked an important dimension of the contemporary social and political landscape, namely how the framework of separating ‘religi...
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Religious moderation has emerged as a central framework of Indonesia’s state policy for governing religious diversity, yet its epistemological coherence with authoritative state-sponsored Qur’anic exegesis remains underexamined. This study investigates this tension by examining how the Ministry of Religious Affairs’ Al...
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Is an Islamic modern polity attainable? How is it perceived, and how is it possible to accommodate a transcendental reference within modern political structures? Where is the line between the political and the religious to be drawn? This article examines these puzzles through the narratives of 48 members of the Egyptia...
Introduction This study examines how imposed religious identities operate as an ideological instrument in Kazakhstan’s post-Soviet transformation, with particular attention to the social production of stigma and the ways in which boundaries of the national community are articulated in public discourse. Methods Building...
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Religious manyness has been pictured as another way of defining religious plurality or diversity. Nigeria’s religious pluralism has presented a challenging and conflicting relationship among faith adherents. Nigeria's rich religious pluralism is a strength and a challenge, particularly in the face of the transformative...
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