EVALUATION OF THE PROMINENT SUBJECTS IN THE DOCTORATE DISSERTATIONS DONE IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF


Sociology of religion is an important academic probing field due to the fact that religion and society relations are formed through general appearance and it is such a field that produces mutual dynamic interactions. By new perceptions and practices of the social appearance out of religion, a route, which does not ignore what exists concerning the realm of existence, is transformed by arrangements, assignments and determinations of the community over religious area also reveals the main system of this academic excavation. In this study, it has been evaluated contextually that choosing topic and approaches to contents of researchers trying to advance in the sociology of religion from different universities in doctoral degree, which constitutes a crucial for construction of academic culture in Turkey. By means of these studies, it has become prominent that interests and tendencies are significant to point out a paradigm that allows to discuss the problems of "synchronicity, being problematic and to be at the edge of time", which is also an answer to the question of where the sociology of religion is in Turkey’s actuality. In the major part of doctoral studies, preference for topic that were written and have been written between 1969-2017 in Turkey in the field of sociology of religion and other prominent tendencies clearly prove that the basic problems sociology of religion, as an academic discipline, cannot be handled separately from the basic realities of the theology.


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sociology of Religion, doctorate, thesis, context, society, academy

Author : Fatma ÇAKMAK
Number of pages: 251-280
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.22495
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Turkish Studies-Comparative Religious Studies
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