A Theoretical Assessment on the Concept of “Religious Prestige” in the Context of Relationship between Religion and Society Cover Image

Din-Toplum İlişkisi Bağlamında “Dinsel İtibar” Kavramı Üzerine Teorik Bir Değerlendirme
A Theoretical Assessment on the Concept of “Religious Prestige” in the Context of Relationship between Religion and Society

Author(s): Fatma Çakmak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Theology and Religion, Politics and religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Anadolu İlahiyat Akademisi
Keywords: Religion; society; status; social prestige; social capital;

Summary/Abstract: Religion has been revealed its efficiency in all steps, beginning from the construction process of the social structure to the development stages in various ways. Religious images and religious typologies had more chance to be visible and to make possible this visibility to represent itself in a categorical continuesness in the traditional structures in which religion is functional as a unique legitimization mechanism. The prestige of religiously-based status patterns in modern societies have been constructed by different parameters. In this study, it is tried to discuss theoretically how religion and its main elements which are efficient in forming social structures positioned in different mentalities in view of the concept of religious prestige.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 59-69
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Turkish