Department Member, Institute for Middle East Studies
Marmara University, Faculty of Theology
Professor of Sociology of Religion
Faculty of Theology
About
Talip Kucukcan is a Professor of Sociology and Religion at Marmara University, Istanbul; and an Advisor to the President of Higher Education Council of Turkey, Ankara. Dr. Kucukcan received a BA in Islamic Studies, Uludag University, Turkey; an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies in Religious Studies and Politics , University of London, and a PhD in Sociology/Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick. He works on freedom of religion, comparative secularism, state policies towards religious minorities and Muslim communities in Europe and the role of higher education in intercultural relations. His publications include Politics of Ethnicity, Identity and Religion: Turkish-Muslims in Britain, Avebury: Ashgate (1999); EuroTurks and Turkey-EU Relations: The Dutch Case, (co-authored with V. Gungor), Amsterdam: Turkevi Research Centre, 2006; Turks in Europe: Culture, Identity, Integration (co-edited with V. Gungor), Amsterdam: Turkevi Research Centre, 2009; State-Religion Relations in Europe (co-edited with Ali Kose), İstanbul: Centre for Islamic Studies, 2008 (in Turkish).
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