ABSTRACT
This article addresses the question of how religion is embedded within the current political regime of Turkey by adopting a Gramscian perspective. Religion is located within a structure that grants certain political and economic privileges to a growing stratum of religious agents who perform hegemonic tasks in the context of a neoliberal poverty regime. The reproduction of this structure unfolds as a Kulturkampf with the attendant exclusion and repression of dissident cultural production. The discussion concludes with a definition of Islamism as a double-sided movement that organizes hegemony and advances religiously articulated privileges.
