Psychology of Religion in Turkey
Psychology of Religion in Turkey

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9004290885

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In Psychology of Religion in Turkey, senior and emerging Turkish scholars present critical conceptual analyses and empirical studies devoted to psychology of religion in Turkey. Part 1 consists of articles placing the psychology of religion in the historical context of an ancient culture undergoing modernization and secularization and articles devoted to conceptual themes suggesting the uniqueness of Islam among the great faith traditions. Part 2 is devoted to empirical studies of religion in the Turkish-Islamic includuing studies focused on the religious life of Turkish youth, popular religiosity, spirituality, and Muslim religious development in light of Al-Ghazzali. Part 3 is devoted to several empirical studies on a variety of social outcomes of religious commitment in Turkey.

Trust and the Islamic Advantage
Trust and the Islamic Advantage

Author: Avital Livny

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-03

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1108485529

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This cutting-edge analysis of Islamic politics and economics shows how Islam builds trust in communities and serves as a collective identity.

Sociology of Religion in Turkey
Sociology of Religion in Turkey

Author: Zuhal Ağılkaya Şahin

Publisher: Çamlıca Yayınları

Published: 2021-12-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 6258427049

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I find in this volume an admirable mix of empirical material – on, for example, religious socialization and perceptions of gender – and reflective pieces, which interrogate the place of religion in Turkish society. Key in this respect is the fact that Turkey is not simply a Muslim society but a distinctive one, not least in terms of the functional differentiation of the modern republic and its consequent effect on religion – a situation that offers a unique challenge to sociological enquiry. The book concludes with a series of chapters that deal with the particularities of the modernization process in Turkey and the tensions (social, cultural and political) that have emerged as the modern state developed – a stage by stage process. Prof. Grace Davie, University of Exeter, Great Britain

Muslimism in Turkey and Beyond
Muslimism in Turkey and Beyond

Author: Neslihan Cevik

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1137561548

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This book identifies a new Islamic form in Turkey: Muslimism. Neither fundamentalism nor liberal religion, Muslimism engages modernity through Islamic categories and practices. This new form has implications for discussions of democracy and Islam in the region, similar movements across religious traditions, and social theory on religion.

Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion
Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion

Author: Ahmet T. Kuru

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 052151780X

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Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion.

Complementary Views of Western and Islamic Psychology of Religion
Complementary Views of Western and Islamic Psychology of Religion

Author: Sevde Düzgüner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-12-19

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9004535039

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Islamic literature, which has been enriched with the perspectives of different cultures throughout history, provides important insights to the human being. This book takes a complementary approach to the areas where the intellectual heritage of Islam can contribute to western psychology.

Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey
Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey

Author: Chiara Maritato

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1108873693

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Tracing the centrality of women in the definition of Turkish secularism, this study investigates the 2003 decision to increase the number of women officers employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It explores how, as professional religious officers, the female Diyanet preachers epitomize a pious, modern and highly educated woman whose role in society has been raised to prominence. Based on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, and drawing on a rich ethnography of the activities conducted by Diyanet women preachers in Istanbul, Chiara Maritato disentangles the state's attempt to standardize a multifaceted female religious participation. In using the feminization of the Diyanet as a prism through which to understand the significance of a renewed presence of Islam in the Turkish public realm, she casts light on a broader reformulation of religious services for women and families in Turkey, and pinpoints how this pervasive moral support has been able to penetrate and reshape even secular spaces.

Questions in the Psychology of Religion
Questions in the Psychology of Religion

Author: Kevin S. Seybold

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1498238823

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What does it means to be human? What is the origin of religious beliefs? Why are we moral creatures? Are religious experiences different from our everyday experiences? Is my brain involved in my experiencing God? What is a soul and do I have one? Is religion a result of evolutionary processes? How might psychology and religion relate? Religious experiences (behaviors, thoughts, and emotions) are determined, at least in part, by natural physical processes. As a result, the empirical methods used in psychology to try to identify the natural mechanisms that influence why we act, think, and feel the way we do can provide important insights into the fundamental and universal phenomena of religion. Drawing on current research from a variety of disciplines, Questions in the Psychology of Religion is appropriate for college students studying psychology, pastors as they help their congregations understand how religion and science might go together, and anyone who learns about recent discoveries in psychological science and wonders how these findings pertain to religion and religious experiences.

Psychology and Religion Within an Ideological Surround
Psychology and Religion Within an Ideological Surround

Author: Paul J. Watson

Publisher: Brill Research Perspectives in

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9789004411180

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For over three decades, an Ideological Surround Model (ISM) has pursued theoretical and methodological innovations designed to enhance the 'truth' and 'objectivity' of research into psychology and religion. The foundational argument of the ISM is that psychology as well as religion unavoidably operates within the limits of an ideological surround. Methodological theism, therefore, needs to supplement the methodological atheism that dominates the contemporary social sciences. Methodological theism should operationalize the meaningfulness of religious traditions and demonstrate empirically that the influences of ideology cannot be ignored. The ISM more generally suggests that contemporary social scientific rationalities need to be supplemented my more complex dialogical rationalities. Beliefs in secularization should also be supplemented by beliefs in trans-rationality.