TY - JOUR TT - Worship, Ritual and Sacrifice AU - Olgun, Hakan PY - 2016 DA - December DO - 10.17131/milel.284848 JF - Milel ve Nihal PB - Milel ve Nihal: Eğitim, Kültür ve Düşünce Platformu Derneği WT - DergiPark SN - 1304-5482 SP - 82 EP - 99 VL - 13 IS - 2 KW - İbadet KW - ritüel KW - kurban KW - trajedi KW - Kierkegaard N2 - In religion studies, special behaviors and actions that are performedwith religious objectives are defined as ‘worship’. In Paganist traditions,these actions and behaviors are expressed as ‘ritual’. When these two conceptsare compared from a formal point of view, both worship and ritualexhibit similar forms of behavior. However, there is a great difference onthe spiritual level between the Islamic concept of worship and the ritualisticbehavior of the paganist tradition. In ritualistic behavior, human being hasa mechanical relationship with God and is concerned with obtaining benefits.While worship is defined as a lifelong commitment of a believer toGod, that is backed by a servitude mindset and consciousness. Therefore,while ritual defines a relationship that is god-oriented, periodic and basedon mutual interest, Islamic sense of worship expresses the consciousness ofbeing a servant of the God by the believer, in the wake of the Hereafter. CR - E. M. Zuesse, “Ritual”, Encyclopedia of Religion (New York: Macmillan, 1987). CR - Victor Turner, Forest of Symbol (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967). CR - Jan N. Bremmer, Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice, A Companion to Greek Religion, ed.: D. Ogden (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007). CR - R. M. Ogilvie, The Romans and their Gods (London: Hogarth Press, 1986). CR - Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Animals, Gods and Humans (London: Roudletge, 2006). CR - Detienne, M. and J.-P. Vernant (eds), The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989). CR - P. Garnsey, Food and Society in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). CR - Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., The Athenian Sun in an African Sky: Modern African Adaptations of Classical Greek Tragedy (London: McFarland & Company, 2002). CR - Sarah Dewar-Watson, Tragedy: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). CR - Walter Burkert, Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual (Duke University, 1966). CR - Understanding Religious Sacrifice: A Reader, ed.: J. Carter (London: Continuum, 2006). CR - Walter Burkert, “Ritual in Ancient Greece”, Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece, tr. P. Bing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). CR - Soren Kierkegaard, Korku ve Titreme, tr. İ. Kapaklıkaya (İstanbul: Anka, 2002). CR - Rağıb el-İsfahanî, Müfredât: Kur’an Kavramları Sözlüğü, tr.: A. Güneş, M. Yolcu (İstanbul: Çıra Yayınları, 2012). CR - Mustafa Sinanoğlu, “İbadet”, TDV, İslam Ansiklopedisi, c. 19, 1999. CR - Fahruddîn er-Razî, Tefsir-i Kebîr: Mefâtîh’ul-Gayb, tr. S. Yıldırım vd. 4. Cilt (Ankara: Akçağ, 1989). UR - https://doi.org/10.17131/milel.284848 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/267121 ER -