Abstract
This chapter discusses Sixty-One Days’ carnivalesque representation of provincial life in Ula, a town in western Turkey, which is the setting for a confrontation between three understandings of religion—‘state Islam’, heterodox Islam as ‘Turkish Islam’ and the Turkish Republic’s Islam. Taking the similarities between the teachings of heterodox Islam and socialist doctrines (in terms of their common emphasis on social justice and equality) as its starting point, the film enters a Socratic dialogue with the audience by juxtaposing three different views of what belief means. Drawing on Bauman and Foucault, the chapter explains that belief does not lie solely in the realm of religion, but also in the fields of politics and philosophy.
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