مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - To Make Sense of Religious Life in Turkey: Piety Case and the Measurement of Religion

Abstract :

And discuss different aspects that affect it to make sense of the religious life in Turkey, it is necessary to focus on the interaction between them. First place of religion in everyday life study from this perspective, the concept of religiosity, focused on the transformation and dimensions of religiosity. The dynamic nature of the change of daily life is inevitable. Certainly receiving its share of religious individuals and communities deeply affected by these changes, which take on different dimensions of religiosity and religious life. In a measure of religiousness society for it is an important tool for understanding the religious life. This view of religion in everyday life and received the piety. However, the scales of the problems are caused by the application for the first time in the West developed to analyze the religious life is not well developed yet it has been exceeded. West religiosity scales developed and applied in this study are evaluated and drawn attention to the problems caused by the implementation in Turkey. This makes the Turkish society to emphasize the need to make the appropriate and necessary nature of the original work.