An Analysis on the Opinions of the Students of Theology Faculties on the Directorate of Religious Affairs in the Context of Laicité in Turkey Cover Image

Laiklik Bağlamında İlahiyat Öğrencilerinin Diyanet’in Varlığına Yönelik Yaklaşımları
An Analysis on the Opinions of the Students of Theology Faculties on the Directorate of Religious Affairs in the Context of Laicité in Turkey

Author(s): Adem Akarsu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Theology and Religion, Politics and religion, Higher Education
Published by: Anadolu İlahiyat Akademisi
Keywords: Laicité; Presidency of Religious Affairs; religion and politics; theology; Alevism; religious movements in Turkey;

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the history of the Turkish Republic a controversial instution the Directorate of Religious Affairs has been one of the main points of criticism that makes this instution a controversial one, is that there has been an ambiguous secularity in Turkey. Because the secular new republics that are building the foundation is an organization substitutes obliged with one hand religious state, on the other hand removes the actual structure of Presidency of Religious Affairs under the President of the name to enlighten society on religion and to manage places of worship duty. In this embodiment, the Turkish community later involved in the socio-cultural life of the concept of secularism has kept the focus of controversy in the early years of the republic to the present day. Approach to dealing with the religious and secular theology students from a cross-section of this article, are discussed with a phenomenological viewpoint. However, the problem of representation in the Alevism Religious led to criticism of the existence of religious and abstraction from the Religious of the state administration, the debate has been evaluated in terms of the transfer demilitarize communities. The main data sources for the study consists of interviews with theology students.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 93-112
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish