TY - BOOK ID - 77900186 TI - The reckoning of pluralism : political belonging and the demands of history in Turkey PY - 2014 SN - 080479118X 9780804791182 9780804786300 0804786305 9780804790932 0804790930 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nosairians KW - Religious minorities KW - Religious pluralism KW - Islamic sects KW - Islam and state KW - Nationalism KW - Secularism KW - Pluralism (Religion) KW - Pluralism KW - Religion KW - Religions KW - Minorities KW - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900186 AB - The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism centers on the case of Turkey's Alevi community, a sizeable Muslim minority in a Sunni majority state. Alevis have seen their loyalty to the state questioned and experienced sectarian hostility, and yet their community is also championed by state ideologues as bearers of the nation's folkl ER -