Hafızalarda Cumhuriyet Dönemi Din Eğitimi: Celal Kırca Hatıraları Özelinde
Religious Education in the Republican Era in the Memories: The Memoirs of Celal Kırca

Summary/Abstract: Considering the impact and interaction of religion in both individual and social spheres, it is essential to reveal the religious education process in the geography we live in with different aspects. Accessing oral sources is as meaningful as written sources in understanding the historical process. Memories, which are defined as the transcription of experiences to writing, are sources that leave traces in the minds of individuals, affect them, and help history. The history of religious education of the Republic of Turkey has also been formed based on information and documents. Memories have a special place in this information and documents. Although they have a subjective point of view, those who share their memories are living witnesses of the events we are talking about from today's perspective. The research aims to albeit partially and to describe the counterpart of religious education in the social and institutional field, based on the memories that can be expressed as the narratives of oral sources about the history of religious education in the Republic period. For limiting the descriptions, the memoirs of retired faculty member Professor Celal Kırca were used. In his books written at different times, Professor Kırca conveyed the events he witnessed in his family, close and distant surroundings in the schools he attended from his childhood to the present day, while conveying the religious education institutions, the understanding of religion of the period, and the changes made by the state regarding religious education. The study is based on the memoirs, which are the output of the oral history method, with the other written documents, using the document analysis method. As a result of the study, it was seen that oral transmissions and written documents related to the history of religious education supported each other, and at the same time, it was desired to draw attention to the importance of the discourses of the living witnesses of history.

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