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14 - Old Habits Die Hard

Tenacity of Old Lifestyles in New Times

from Part III - The Power of Popular Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2021

Murat Metinsoy
Murat Metinsoy
Affiliation:
Istanbul Üniversitesi
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Summary

The republican rulers promoted positivism and tried to eliminate spiritual and traditional beliefs and practices by banning the systematic acts of visiting sacred tombs, faith healing, sorcery, Islamic tariqas, and sacred tombs. Besides, the new Civil Code, adopted in 1926 from the Swiss law, forbade polygamy and equated women with men. This chapter shows that despite this major legal reform and the government’s effort to eliminate existing spiritual and traditional beliefs and practices, the established ways of life and patterns of relations between men and women survived even in the big cities. This chapter also underlines the social and economic factors that underpinned the survival of these beliefs and practices.

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mysticismIslamic tariqas and lodgessacred tombsresistance to the Civil Codegenderstatus of womenpolygamymarriage
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The Power of the People
Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38
 , pp. 262 - 281
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Old Habits Die Hard
  • Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul Üniversitesi
  • Book: The Power of the People
  • Online publication: 24 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025775.017
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  • Old Habits Die Hard
  • Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul Üniversitesi
  • Book: The Power of the People
  • Online publication: 24 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025775.017
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  • Old Habits Die Hard
  • Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul Üniversitesi
  • Book: The Power of the People
  • Online publication: 24 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025775.017
Available formats
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