Din; bireyin duygu, düşünce, tutum ve davranışlarını etkileyen, kişilik yapısının şekillenmesinde katkısı olan, giyim kuşamdan yeme içme alışkanlıklarına ve insani ilişkilere kadar geniş bir yelpazede yaşam biçimlerini belirleyen bir fenomendir. Din, insanoğlunun dünyayı ve varoluşu anlamlandırmasında aşkın bir perspektif sunar. Zorluklar karşısında bireyin daha dirençli olmasını sağlayan din, ortaya koyduğu tatminkâr ve ikna edici açıklamalar ile onu ruhsal açıdan güçlendirir, iç huzur kazanmasına ve yaşam memnuniyetini artırmasına yardımcı olur. Ölüme karşı etkili bir terapi işlevini de yerine getiren din; bireyin anlam dünyasını zenginleştirir, hayatı her şeye rağmen yaşanmaya değer gösteren bir bakış açısını ona kazandırır. Din olgusu, değer yönelimleri üzerinde de etkilidir ve dini değerler toplumların yaşantılarını düzenleyici bir role sahiptir. Dolayısıyla dinin söz konusu rolleri anlaşıldıkça, birey ve toplum refahına ilişkin daha bütüncül ve daha sağlıklı değerlendirmeler yapmak mümkün olacaktır. İnsanı merkeze alan tüm bilim dallarının esas ve nihai amacı onun iyiliği, refahı, mutluluğu ve huzurudur. Bu konuda özellikle din psikolojisinin imkânları ve sunduğu katkılar oldukça önemlidir. Farklı, ilgi uyandırıcı ve güncel konulara akademik bir bakışla değinen “Birey, Toplum ve Din” adlı bu kitap da böylesi bir amacın ürünüdür. Filojeni ve ontojeni bağlamında din, uyku felci ile ilgili inançlar, tasavvufi yaşantıda farklı bilinç durumları ve mistik deneyimler, manevi danışmanlıkta iç huzur modeli, çocuklarda inanç ve ahlâk gelişimi, umre ibadeti-ruh sağlığı ilişkisi, narsisizm-dindarlık ilişkisi, değer yönelimleri-kişilik ilişkisi, sosyal medya fenomenlerinin tesettür algısına etkisi, israf ve dini normatif niyet ilişkisi, koronavirüs korkusu-dini yönelim kitapta ele alınan konulardan bazılarıdır.

This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts? How have sacred and prophetic texts been interpreted throughout major Islamic intellectual history by the Sunnis and Shi‘a? How does contemporary Islamic thought treat religious and political diversity in modern nation states and in societies in transition? How is pluralism dealt with in modern major and minor Islamic contexts? How does modern political Islam deal with pluralism in the public sphere? And what are the major internal and external challenges to pluralism in Islamic contexts? These questions that have become of paramount relevance in religious studies especially during the last three-four decades are answered as critically highlighted in Islamic founding sources, the formative classical sources and how it has been lived and practiced in past and present Islamic majority societies and communities around the world. Case studies cover Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, and Thailand, besides various internal references to other contexts.

Nationalism was a defining characteristic of Turkey in the twentieth century and was a central driving force in Kemal Ataturk's foundation of the Republic in 1923. How did the prominence of Kemalist ways of political thinking affect its people and policies? Is Turkey making progress towards post-nationalism or post-Kemalism in the twenty-first century? To what extent has Turkey's EU candidature been a vehicle of transformation since 1999 and what would EU membership mean for modern Turkey? This book explores the historical impact of Turkish nationalism, anti- liberalism and Westernization and examines the conditions that have contributed to the country's evolution from a quasi-religious Kemalism. Tracing the development of nationalism from its founding period before the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to Kemalism and the present AKP government- and analysing key factors such as the position of minorities in the Turkification process and the influence of religious politics-this strong and significant contribution casts a new light on a vivid international debate.

Discussions of Islam in Turkey are still heavily dominated by political considerations and the dualistic paradigms of modern v. traditional, secular v. religious. Yet there exists a body of Muslim institutions in the country - Turkish theology faculties - whose work overcomes ideological divisions. By engaging with Turkish theology in its theological rather than political concerns, this book sheds light on complex Muslim voices in the context of a largely Western and Christian modernity.Featuring the work of Recep AlpyaAYA l and Azaban Ali Dzgn, this innovative study provides a concise survey of Turkish Muslim positions on religious pluralism and atheism as well as detailed treatments of both critical and appreciative Turkish Muslim perspectives on Western Christianity. The result is a critical reframing of the category of modernity through the responses of Turkish theologians to the Western intellectual tradition.

A prominent Turkish sociologist examines the veiling of young university women, and the cultural cleavages between the Islamic and Western worlds

Bireysel ve toplumsal sorunların tek tek insanların gücünü aştığı bir dünyada hayatımızı derinden etkileyen “çağdaş düzenleri ve kavramları” anlatmak, sanıldığının aksine güç bir iştir ve yoğun bir çaba ister. Yaklaşık beş yılda hazırlanan bu kitap böyle bir çabanın ürünüdür. Amaç, içinde yaşadığı kültürel ve sosyal çevreyi anlama ihtiyacını duyan genç kuşaklara ve çağını sorgulamak isteyen aydınlara modern dünyayı biçimlendiren sosyal ve ekonomik düzenlerle bunları besleyen kavramlara ilişkin doğru ve sağlıklı bilgiler vermek, eleştirme ve alternatifler arama yollarını göstermektir.

In Turkey, no secular party has approximated the high levels of membership and intense activism of women within the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party. Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy examines the experiences of these women, who represented an unprecedented phenomenon within Turkish politics. Using in-depth interviews, Yeşim Arat reveals how the women of the party broadened the parameters of democratic participation and challenged preconceived notions of what Islam can entail in a secular democratic polity. The women of the party successfully mobilized large groups of allegedly apolitical women by crossing the boundaries between the social and the political, reaching them through personal networks cultivated in private spaces. The experiences of these women show the contentious relationship between liberal democracy and Islam, where liberalism that prioritizes the individual can transform, coexist, or remain in tension with Islam that prioritizes a communal identity legitimized by a sacred God.

The articles in this book focus on some areas where classical sociology usually leaves out. In this respect, it is placed in a channel determined by critical sociological approach. This channel is an area where thousands of different forms of sociality and acquisitions are collected (relations, tensions, reflections, conflicts, compromises, change, transformation, etc.). The sociology of everyday life is also discusses, understands and explains the area of socialites that remain in this area. It must be noted that the sociology of everyday life not only reveals the place of individuals within the community, but also the place of sociality in "society". The sociological articles of the book in your hand are an example of this approach and initiative. In this book you will find two philosophical articles dealing with sociological articles from a more theoretical ground. In the modern world we will see that the current philosophy is not as archaic as it might seem, but in fact it has important potentials to understand this reified world.

Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. This book will address Norbert Elias's approach to empirical research, the use of his work in empirical research, and compare him with other theorists.