Author/Authors :
ERTİT, Volkan Radboud Üniversitesi, Netherlands , ERTİT, Volkan Aksaray Üniversitesi - Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi - Sosyoloji Bölümü, Turkey
Title Of Article :
A Different Approach to the Relationship Between Science and Religion in the Theory of Secularization
Abstract :
There are two aims of this article. The first aim is to indicate that it is normal for a religious man to believe in science or that a scientist can be religious since there is no zero-sum relationship between science and religion for secularization theory. The second aim is to explain how the scientific advances accelerate the secularization process in the absence of zero-sum relationship. The article concludes that the impact of scientific developments on secularization process have two pillars: the increase of rational consciousness by which human beings start to explain the natural phenomena in a rational cause-and-effect relationship, and the spread of technology which has decreased the number of the areas and the issues previously needed religion.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Secularization Theory , Science , Religion , Rational Consciousness , Technology
JournalTitle :
Journal Of Social Sciences, Eskişehir Osmangazi University
