ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces human capital and market citizenship concepts in the book, and discusses the role that religion could play in their making. In order, it debates the importance of collective moralities and neoliberal rationalities for the making of biopower, considering the processes of neoliberalism. It presents the role that the states could play in the making of biopolitics. Later, it traces these theoretical inferences looking into market Islam literature and Islamic developmentalism. Finally, it presents where Turkey can be situated in this literature, considering Turkish politics and the operation of politico-religious authority, which the book aligns with the role that Diyanet and the state have played together in Turkey. Therefore, this chapter lays down the framework for following the development and circulation of conservative “apparatuses” (Campbell and Sitze 2013), moralities (Johnson 1993), and logics that generate novel identities in support of neoliberal forms of production (Akçalı and Korkut 2014).
