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Religion as an authoritarian securitization and violence legitimation tool: The Erdoğanist Diyanet’s framing of a religious movement as an existential threat
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posted on 2023-10-23, 23:39 authored by Ihsan YilmazIhsan Yilmaz, Ismail AlbayrakThe paper shows how a state controlled religious institution used religion, fear, trauma, insecurity, grievances, and conspiracy theories to dehumanise a religious community, and presented it as an existential threat to the nation, the global community of believers and religion, by investigating the case of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs’ (the Diyanet) securitizing role under the authoritarian Islamist Erdoğanist rule. The article provides an empirically rich analysis of the Diyanet’s construction of the Gülen Movement (GM) as a source of sedition (fitne), corruption (fesat), mischief, a social disease, and finally, as a traitor and puppet of the West that constantly conspires against Turkey, Islam, and the Muslim World. By securitising the movement, the Diyanet legitimised the authoritarian and violent actions of the Erdoğanist regime against the alleged movement members
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ReligionsVolume
12Article number
574Pagination
Jan-14Location
Basel, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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2077-1444Language
engPublication classification
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