ZORUNLU BİR YAPILANDIRMA İHTİYACI: DEVLET ve DİNİ CEMAATLER İLİŞKİSİ
A NEED FOR A COMPULSORY STRUCTURING: THE STATE AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES RELATIONSHIP

Summary/Abstract: The historical process around modernization being experienced by Turkey has led to various transformations in the structures of religious orders and communities that are social realities. Alongside the community system that disintegrated by transition from the Ottoman social structure to the modern nation-state, religious orders today started to be visible with a new community identity in the public sphere on an urban scale and from the periphery to the center. While the nature of the relationship that has been established between the state and religious communities in Turkey varies depending on the conjunctional structure of the period, this mainly originates from the borders between the two institutions becoming ambiguous and emergence of a broad sphere where this situation is open to exploitation. This study discusses the relationship between the state and religious communities within the modernization journey of Turkey and proposes recommendations towards restructuring of the aforementioned relationship.

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