Ateş Altınordu

E-Mail

atesaltinordusabanciunivedu

Phone

(216) 483 9283

Personal Web

http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/atesaltinordu/

Title

Faculty Member

Education

B.A., Yale University, 2002
Ph.D., Yale University, 2010

Areas of Interest

Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Social Theory, Cultural Sociology

Awards

Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize - Yale University, Department of Sociology 2011
Reinhard Bendix Graduate Student Paper Award - American Sociological Association, The Comparative and Historical Sociology Section 2009

Memberships

American Sociological Association, Social Science History Association

Publications

Article
Altınordu, Ateş (2021) "Divine warning or prelude to secularization? Religion, politics, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey", Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review (SI), Vol.82, No.4, 447-470 (SSCI, AHCI)
Altınordu, Ateş Ali (2017) "A Midsummer Night's Coup: Performance and power in Turkey's July 15 Coup attempt", Qualitative Sociology, Vol.40, No.2, 139-164 (SSCI)
Altınordu, Ateş (2016) "The political incorporation of anti-system religious parties: the case of Turkish political Islam (1994–2011)", Qualitative Sociology, Vol.39, No.2, 147-171 (SSCI)
Altınordu, Ateş (2013) "The rise and transformation of German political Catholicism (1848-1914) and Turkish political Islam (1970-2011)", Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Vol.65, No.Supple, 383-408 (SSCI)
Altınordu, Ateş (2010) "The politicization of religion: political Catholicism and political Islam in comparative perspective", Politics and Society, Vol.38, No.4, 517-551 (SSCI)
Book Section / Chapter
Altınordu, Ateş, "Is Turkey a postsecular society? Secular differentiation, committed pluralism, and complementary learning in contemporary Turkey", Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan, and Turkey, Barkey, Karen and Kaviraj, Sudipta and Naresh, Vatsal (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press, September 2021, 157-177
Altınordu, Ateş, "Uncivil populism in power: the case of Erdoğanism", Populism in the Civil Sphere, Alexander, Jeffrey C. and Kivisto, Peter and Sciortino, Giuseppe (eds.), Cambridge: Wiley, January 2021, 74-95
Altınordu, Ateş, "Toward a comparative historical sociology of religious politics", Religion on the Edge: De-Centering and Re-Centering the Sociology of Religion, Bender, Courtney and Cadge, Wendy and Levitt, Peggy and Smilde, David (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press 2013, 67-91
Before SU Publications
Philip Gorski and Ateş Altınordu, "After Secularization?” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 34 (2008), 55-85.

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