Section Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 2 – Online
Call for Proposals from Paul A. Djupe – SPSA
Dear APSA Section Members,
I am the Religion and Politics program chair for the Southern Political Science Association this year and I'd like to invite you to submit a proposal and join me in Orlando, Florida from January. 3-5, 2013. I have no particular agenda for this meeting other than to assemble high quality panels for you to deliver your work, have engaging conversations, and gain valuable feedback.
As usual, the SPSA is open to a wide variety of formats beyond traditional panels, including author meets critics, topical roundtables, or anything else you can dream up. One innovation is the conference within a conference, in which participants gather at a variety of panels and have conversations around specific themes. I'm open to just about anything.
The online submission system is now open through **August 9**.
The conference is January 3-5, 2013 in Orlando, Florida.
The swank conference hotel is the Peabody Orlando (it has a duck on the outside):
Please consider submitting a proposal for a paper or panel.
Regards,
Paul A. Djupe
Journal Co-editor, Politics & Religion
Department of Political Science
Denison University
Granville, OH 43023
Letter from Paul Djupe, Co-editor, Politics & Religion (Section Journal)
Dear APSA Religion & Politics section members,
This is a brief update with some great news about our section’s journal, Politics & Religion.
First, we are excited to announce that beginning Friday, April 6th, Politics & Religion will be run through Editorial Manager which is used by the other leading APSA journals. All submissions, reviews, and other journal correspondence will be conducted through this online system. This will make the publication process more transparent for all those involved and enable a more efficient review process. We, as co-editors, will have access to contact information of APSA members and their corresponding research interests which will facilitate the location of appropriate reviewers. If you are not registered with the editorial manager system already or you wish to submit a manuscript, please do so by following this link:
Second, we can report that the journal is healthy:
Submissions are up from this period last year (24 through March, compared to 16 in 2011) and response times on new submissions reflect the standards set by leading political science journals.
As you may be aware, the journal is now published three times per year (with 7 articles per issue), but in 2013 this will increase to four times per year (with 8 articles per issue). Moving to a quarterly publication will expedite publication of articles and ensure that the journal reflects the most current research.
In addition, from July 2012, articles accepted for publication will appear online at the Politics & Religion Cambridge website. This early online access before publication should encourage authors to place work with the journal. Moreover, Cambridge generously granted us 4 additional articles across the last two issues of volume 5 this year to help publish accepted articles faster.
We are very excited about the new developments for Politics & Religion and hope you are too. Please continue to evangelize about Politics & Religion as an outlet for research and send us your best work on religion and politics.
Sincerely,
Angelia Wilson and Paul Djupe, coeditors
Politics & Religion
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey, edited by Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan (2012)
"Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey contains some of the best essays on contradictory signs and ambivalence in contemporary Turkish politics. Its chapters, by the most prominent experts on their respective topics, are well written. Reading them together provides a very good sense of the content and the terms of the struggles and conflicts over the soul of Turkish democracy and its international mission."
-Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, and religious context for this behavior, the essays in Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey examine issues relevant to Turkish debates and global concerns, from the state's position on religion to its involvement with the European Union.
Written by experts in a range of disciplines, the chapters explore the toleration of diversity during the Ottoman Empire's classical period; the erosion of ethno-religious heterogeneity in modern, pre-democratic times; Kemalism and its role in modernization and nation building; the changing political strategies of the military; and the effect of possible EU membership on domestic reforms. The essays also offer a cross-Continental comparison of "multiple secularisms," as well as political parties, considering especially Turkey's Justice and Development Party in relation to Europe's Christian Democratic parties. Contributors tackle critical research questions, such as the legacy of the Ottoman Empire's ethno-religious plurality and the way in which Turkey's assertive secularism can be softened to allow greater space for religious actors. They address the military's "guardian" role in Turkey's secularism, the implications of recent constitutional amendments for democratization, and the consequences and benefits of Islamic activism's presence within a democratic system. No other collection confronts Turkey's contemporary evolution so vividly and thoroughly or offers such expert analysis of its crucial social and political systems.
Ahmet T. Kuru, is associate professor of political science at San Diego State University and chair of the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey.
Alfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University and a former Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford University. His most recent book, with Juan J. Linz and Yogendra Yadav, is Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies, and another book with Linz, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.
This book is part of the esteemed series Religion, Culture, and Public Life, series editors: Alfred Stepan and Mark C. Taylor.
To read an excerpt or find out more about this work go to:
http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15932-6/democracy-islam-and-secularism-in-turkey