The Meaning of Religious Practices in German Everyday Life: The Case of Turkish Students
Abstract
Because of its long historical background, labour migration from Turkey to
Germany has many implications within everyday life. With its huge potential migration
is transforming both residents and migrants at the same time. Religion has an important
function in this transformation because it is embedded in all sphere of life. In this
study, different from other researches, it is focused on migration and religion with the
perspective of everyday life sociology. This is because everyday life sociology makes easy
to recognize the routines in and of social relations and practices. In doing so, it both gives
importance to the ordinary and sees ordinary as a category of analysis. Religion as tactic
and resistance mechanism of ordinary people- Turkish origin pupils- against the strategy
of German education system stands at the center. The article finds that both within the
school and outside of the school, religion has a crucial function for the continuity of
Turkish identity. Students define themselves together with cultural and religious codes.
These two codes could not be separated and the interpretation of these codes both
different from as in Turkey and Germany.
Keywords
Kaynakça
- Çağlar, Ayşe. “German Turks in Berlin: Social Exclusion and Strategies for Social Mobility”. Journal of Ethnic Migration Studies, 21(1995): 309-323.
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Şeyma Karameşe
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
22 Haziran 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
11 Mayıs 2018
Kabul Tarihi
9 Haziran 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2018 Cilt: 5 Sayı: 1
