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Geleneksel ve Modern Toplumlarda Cemaat Algısı
Community Perceptions in Traditional and Modern Societies

Author(s): Ömer Gülen
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Theology and Religion
Published by: Anadolu İlahiyat Akademisi
Keywords: Community; world-views; history; modernity; individualism;

Summary/Abstract: For social structures, a world-view determines the raison d’etre of their own existence. Our work aims to understand the differences in the nature of social unity of two cultures that stem from different world-views in classic and modern eras with respect to the individual and community in particular. An essay with the title of community, old and new or if we describe it more ideologically, it is not possible to build an idea on it without understanding the inner-structure of the traditional and modern societies. From this angle, the concept of community should be understood with its functionality which is more expli-citly visible in the traditional world. Because, this point will illustrate us what kind of dissolution in the social structure has led to individualism that has steadily developed with modernity and formed its own culture.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 7-24
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish