Religion and Sufism in recent years in Turkey have become a focus of intense interest. In this context, the Mevlevism and Mevlevi culture, which has been popular in our country for a long time, has also received its share from this interest. In this study, the reflections of Mevlânâ and Mevlevism in popular books written in recent years will be discussed. The main research problem in this study is how these sufistic-mystical orientations that emerged in the field of literature in recent years gave birth to new literary genres. For this purpose, the reflections of Sufi discourse in popular books written in recent years (\textit{Aşk, Pinhan, Mevlâna Işığında Düşünce Yönetimi, Mevlana’nın CEO’su, Mevlâna ve Sûfî Gibi Düşünmek}) will be discussed in the example of Mevlana and Mevlevism. For this purpose, by selecting some best-seller popular books written in Turkey in recent years, transformation of perceptions on sufism on national and global scale will be examined. On the one hand, these texts emerge as texts that instrumentalize Sufism in the form of postmodern fiction by using different literary genres, on the other hand, they come to the fore as instruments that instrumentalize the spiritual education and evolution that Sufism aims as a holistic system within religion. While the first type of understanding creates a unique postmodern Sufi romance genre, the other leads to the birth of the Sufi self-help literary genre. In the article, the birth of these new literary genres is discussed in terms of the sociology of religion, not merely as an abstract literary development but as a reciprocal transformation peculiar to the "new age" in the relationship between religion, literature, and culture.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Sociology |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | April 30, 2021 |
Acceptance Date | April 19, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 |