The Founding of an American Jerusalem: Religions and Values Education Among the Mormons

Volume: 1 Number: 3 July 1, 2003
  • Yasin Aktay
EN TR

The Founding of an American Jerusalem: Religions and Values Education Among the Mormons

Abstract

Mormonism is perhaps the first and only purely American religion. In recent sociological literature the education in and reproduction of values in America has been treated using the sub-terminology of the concept “social capital”. In America, any religion is inevitably articulated with a set of values that can be labelled Americanism, even if they have an apparently anti-American emphasis. In this article several mechanisms of religious and values education among the Mormons are investigated. These mechanisms are not limited to institutional levels, such as elementary, middle or high schools. One of the most important aspects of Mormonism in this context is perhaps its greater performance in extending the process of religious and values education throughout life. Another aspect is the concept through which every Mormon is educated to be religiously devoted. For religion in Mormonism is not at the margin of life, but rather at the heart. Therefore, religious education aims at bringin up generations to live exclusively for religion, and to fulfil the goals and ends of religion. Undoubtedly, such an education has many noteworthy ways in which it is articulated with the ideologies of Americanism, and some of these ways are the subject of this study.

Keywords

References

  1. Aktay, Y. (1999). Türk dininin sosyolojik imkanı. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
  2. Aktay, Y. (2003). ABD’de din-devlet ilişkileri ve cemaatlerin etkisi. W. Schönbohm. (Ed.), Devlet ve din ilişkileri – Farklı modeller, konseptler ve tecrübeler sempozyumu bildiri kitabı içinde, (ss. 29-48). Ankara: Konrad Adenauer Vakfı.
  3. Averett, K. C. (2000). Personal social networks, social capital, and transition of adolescents into young aduluthood in an LDS population. Unpublished doctorate thesis, Brigham Young University Department of Sociology, Provo.
  4. Bloom, H. (1992). The American religion: The emergence of the post-Christian nation. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  5. Doctrine and Covenants. (1999). Salt Lake City: The Church of the Latter Day Saints.
  6. Fukuyama, F. (1995). Trust: The Social virtues and the creation of prosperity. New York: Free Press.
  7. Heaton, T. B. (1998). Religious influences on Mormon fertility: Cross-national comparisons. In T. D. James (Ed.), Latter-Day Saint social life: Social research on the LDS church and its member, (pp. 105-132). Provo: Brigham Young University Press.
  8. Kara, İ. (2003). Türkiye’de lâiklik uygulamaları açısından Diyanet İşleri. W. Schönbohm. (Ed.), Devlet ve din ilişkileri –Farklı modeller, konseptler ve tecrübeler sempozyumu bildiri kitabı içinde, (ss. 87-106). Ankara: Konrad Adenauer Vakfı.

Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

-

Journal Section

-

Authors

Yasin Aktay This is me

Publication Date

July 1, 2003

Submission Date

July 1, 2003

Acceptance Date

-

Published in Issue

Year 2003 Volume: 1 Number: 3

APA
Aktay, Y. (2003). Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din ve Değerler Eğitimi. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi, 1(3), 27-64. https://izlik.org/JA48EZ92GB
AMA
1.Aktay Y. Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din ve Değerler Eğitimi. ded. 2003;1(3):27-64. https://izlik.org/JA48EZ92GB
Chicago
Aktay, Yasin. 2003. “Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din Ve Değerler Eğitimi”. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi 1 (3): 27-64. https://izlik.org/JA48EZ92GB.
EndNote
Aktay Y (July 1, 2003) Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din ve Değerler Eğitimi. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi 1 3 27–64.
IEEE
[1]Y. Aktay, “Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din ve Değerler Eğitimi”, ded, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 27–64, July 2003, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA48EZ92GB
ISNAD
Aktay, Yasin. “Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din Ve Değerler Eğitimi”. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi 1/3 (July 1, 2003): 27-64. https://izlik.org/JA48EZ92GB.
JAMA
1.Aktay Y. Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din ve Değerler Eğitimi. ded. 2003;1:27–64.
MLA
Aktay, Yasin. “Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din Ve Değerler Eğitimi”. Değerler Eğitimi Dergisi, vol. 1, no. 3, July 2003, pp. 27-64, https://izlik.org/JA48EZ92GB.
Vancouver
1.Yasin Aktay. Amerika’da Kudüs’ü Kurmak İçin: Mormonlarda Din ve Değerler Eğitimi. ded [Internet]. 2003 Jul. 1;1(3):27-64. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA48EZ92GB