Turkish Modernity and Epistemic Communities in the Social Sciences: Transfer of Intellectual Knowledge among Religion and Science?
Abstract
In this study, transformation process of epistemic communities in modern Turkey, which helps us understanding the imagined conflict among science and religion, will be issued and the problematic regarding an assumed competition among religion and science will be focused on. In doing so, it is proposed to illustrate the unique model of religious intellectual manner in Turkey, which both embraces religion and science without problematizing them as the conflict areas. At the end of the study, it is proposed to clarify the relationship among modernity, religion, intellectual knowledge and scientific language in specific to modern Turkish history
Keywords
Religion, Science, Epistemic Communities, Intellectual Knowledge
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