The Leading Influence of Tradition of Sociology That Focuses on the West in Turkish Sociology of Religion

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In our country, appearance and improvement process of both sociology and its sub-discipline sociology of religion has highly occurred within the framework of concepts, theories and methods that were produced in the world of Western science. Therefore, the most important characteristic of the Turkish sociology of religion is being determined in the point of making a research through “compilation”, “quotation”, “counterfeit” rather than production of knowledge which is peculiar to its own social and religious reality. But, the social reality and religious field which Western societies and Turkish society based on are inherently different from each other. Accordingly, description of all aspects of religious phenomena which have a social character in our country by the Western sociological theories of religion are not expected. Which is need to be done is, without excluding the universal knowledge, to try to construct the theories which will help us to explain and understand our own religious and social life

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• Sociology, Sociology of Religion, The West, Turkish Society

Türk Din Sosyolojisinde Batı Eksenli Sosyoloji Geleneğinin Yönlendirici Etkisi

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