Dr Caroline Tee

  • Lecturer in Modern Islam (Theology & Religious Studies)

Biography

I am an anthropologist of Islam and a specialist on religion and society in modern Turkey. I gained my PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol in 2012, and subsequently held postdoctoral positions first at Bristol and later at Cambridge. In 2018, I took up a post in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester, where I remained until moving to Glasgow in 2025. 

My first monograph was an ethnographic study of the Turkish religious community led by Fethullah Gülen: The Gülen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity (London: IB Tauris, 2016). I am co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), and founding co-editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Anthropology of Islam book series at Ediburgh University Press.

From 2024-2027, I am Principal Investigator of the MUSER Project ('Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk'), which explores questions of species-level risk through the prism of the Islamic tradition. 

 

Research interests

Anthropology of Islam; modern Turkey; religious groups and movements (Alevis, Gülen movement; ethnographic methods; theologically-engaged anthropology; religion and risk. 

Research groups

  • Religion, Challenge & Change

Publications

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2025

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302 (2025) Monastic avoidance: piety and ambivalence in pre-2016 Turkey. Contemporary Islam, (doi: 10.1007/s11562-025-00589-w) (Early Online Publication)

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302, Vicini, Fabio and Dorroll, Philip (2025) 100 years of religion in Turkey: voices from the center and the margins. In: Tee, Caroline, Vicini, Fabio and Dorroll, Philip (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197625330 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197624883.013.38)

Shively, Kim and Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302 (2025) Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet movement: power, controversy, and the “good Muslim” paradigm. In: Tee, Caroline, Vicini, Fabio and Dorroll, Philip (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197625330 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197624883.013.22)

2024

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302, Vicini, Fabio and Dorroll, Philip (Eds.) (2024) The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197625330 (In Press)

2019

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302 (2019) Introduction. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 21(3), pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.3366/jqs.2019.0396)

2016

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302 (2016) The Gulen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity. I. B. Taurus. ISBN 9781784535889

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Articles

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302 (2025) Monastic avoidance: piety and ambivalence in pre-2016 Turkey. Contemporary Islam, (doi: 10.1007/s11562-025-00589-w) (Early Online Publication)

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302 (2019) Introduction. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 21(3), pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.3366/jqs.2019.0396)

Books

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302 (2016) The Gulen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity. I. B. Taurus. ISBN 9781784535889

Book Sections

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302, Vicini, Fabio and Dorroll, Philip (2025) 100 years of religion in Turkey: voices from the center and the margins. In: Tee, Caroline, Vicini, Fabio and Dorroll, Philip (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197625330 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197624883.013.38)

Shively, Kim and Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302 (2025) Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet movement: power, controversy, and the “good Muslim” paradigm. In: Tee, Caroline, Vicini, Fabio and Dorroll, Philip (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197625330 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197624883.013.22)

Edited Books

Tee, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2079-9302, Vicini, Fabio and Dorroll, Philip (Eds.) (2024) The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197625330 (In Press)

This list was generated on Mon Oct 27 19:01:02 2025 GMT.

Prior publications

Book Section

Caroline Tee (2021) The Gülen Movement: Between Turkey and International Exile Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements Caroline Tee. ISBN 9789004425255 (doi: 10.1163/9789004435544_007)

Caroline Tee (2018) The Gülen Movement and the AK Party: The Rise and Fall of a Turkish Islamist Alliance Turkey’s July 15th Coup: What Happened and Why Caroline Tee.

Caroline Tee (2014) On The Path of Pir Sultan? Engagement with Authority in the Modern Alevi Movement Contemporary Turkey at a Glance Caroline Tee. ISBN 9783658049164 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-04916-4_4)

Article

Caroline Tee (2019) Creating charisma online: the role of digital presence in the formation of religious identity Journal of Contemporary Religion Caroline Tee. ISSN 1469-9419 (doi: 10.1080/13537903.2019.1585104)

Caroline Tee (2018) The Gülen Movement in London and the Politics of Public Engagement: Producing ‘Good Islam’ Before and After 15 July Politics, Religion & Ideology Caroline Tee. ISSN 2156-7697 (doi: 10.1080/21567689.2018.1453269)

Caroline Tee, David Shankland (2014) Said Nursi’s Notion of Sacred Science: Its Function and Application in Hizmet High School Education Sociology of Islam Caroline Tee.

Caroline Tee (2013) The Sufi Mystical Idiom in Alevi Aşık Poetry: Flexibility, Adaptation and Meaning European journal of Turkish studies Caroline Tee. ISSN 1773-0546 (doi: 10.4000/ejts.4683)

Caroline Tee (2010) Holy Lineages, Migration and Reformulation of Alevi Tradition: A Study of the Derviş Cemal Ocak from Erzincan British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Caroline Tee. ISSN 1469-3542 (doi: 10.1080/13530194.2010.524440)

Amed Gökçen, Caroline Tee (2010) Notes from the Field: Yezidism: A New Voice and an Evolving Culture in Every Setting British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Caroline Tee. ISSN 1469-3542 (doi: 10.1080/13530194.2010.524442)

Grants

Principal Investigator, "Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk", Templeton Religion Trust (05/24-05/27), £1.2m. https://muserproject.co.uk/ 

Principal Investigator, "A Hermeneutics of Civic Engagement? Reading the Qur’an and Sunna in British Islam", Templeton Religion Trust (09/19-10/23), £175,230.

Lead researcher, "Cultural Contingency in the Science and Islam Debate: The Case of the Gülen Movement", John Templeton Foundation (02/13 – 03/15), £119,473.

Supervision

I welcome proposals from students interested in working in areas related to my research interests. Please contact me directly to enquire.