Kabir Tambar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.
"A detailed and close analysis of the paradoxes of contemporary pluralism. The focus on the Turkish Alevi - a religious minority within Islam - allows Tambar to explore in concrete terms the ways in which state authorized narratives of political belonging at once enable inclusion and perpetuate the subordination of difference. Ironically, acknowledging the Alevi's place in Turkey's history requires a deliberate forgetting of the specificities of their collective experience. The ethnographic detail is illuminating; the argument subtle and nuanced. We learn not only about conflicts in Turkish history, but about the complex workings of modernity." - Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study "Written with rich ethnographic detail and impressive analytical force, The Reckoning of Pluralism shakes our taken-for-granted social and theoretical understandings of secular modernity, political belonging, and religious identity." - Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University " The Reckoning of Pluralism is a remarkable contribution to our understanding of politics of diversity and religious subjectivity not only in Turkey, but also throughout the Islamic world and beyond." - Esra Ozyurek, London School of Economics
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