From Rumi to Buddha: Charting Alternative Spiritualities in Contemporary Türkiye

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Betül Avcı is Associate Professor and Chair of both Cultural Studies and Humanities at Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. She holds degrees in English Literature, History of Religions, and Islamic Studies, and earned her S.T.D. in Missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Her research focuses on Muslim-Christian relations, alternative spiritualities, and the intercultural dynamics of identity. She is currently engaged in research on the nationalist foundations of the history of religions in modern Türkiye and on Muslim responses to modern ideas of progress. She has taught and published widely on Muslim-Christian relations, intellectual biographies, and alternative spiritualities.

H. Şule Albayrak is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion in the Faculty of Theology at Marmara University, İstanbul. She lectures on topics including modernization, secularization, religion-state relations, and Islam in the modern world. She is the author of two books: Christian Fundamentalism (Hıristiyan Fundamentalizmi, 2007) and Religion-State Relations in the U.S. (ABD’de Din Devlet İlişkileri, 2018). She has also edited Being Woman: Religion, Tradition, Modernity, and Beyond (Kadın Olmak: İslam, Gelenek, Modernite ve Ötesi, 2019) and Privacy in All Its Aspects (Tüm Yönleriyle Mahremiyet, 2022).